Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online.

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States.

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding Circle distinction and shed light on the genesis of postcolonial varieties of English.

This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy.

Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory.

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing.

The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax.

The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.

The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children.

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories.

This book aims to help researchers and teachers interested in language processing and Processability Theory (PT) to understand this theory and its applications.

This book focuses on important methodological and theoretical issues in Chinese and Japanese L1 and L2 acquisition.

The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains.

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe.

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another.

This book presents a current state-of-affairs regarding the study of cross-linguistic influence in bilingualism.

This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015).

This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism.

Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child.

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation.

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system.

Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings builds a bridge between Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research (LCR) methodologies to take the evaluation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to a new level.

In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism.

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change.

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts.

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series.

For millions of individuals all over the world, speaking in a second language is a daily activity.

Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition.

This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer.

This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design.

This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to name a few.

This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new.

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics.

This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition - data.

This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching.

At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes.

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system.

The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and, consequently, the development of the Embodied Simulation theory.

This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016.

This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations.

This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish.

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often called executive function or executive control).

One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell.

Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching.

Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced.

This volume honours Peter Skehan's landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching.

This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA.

This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science.