Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language.

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition.

Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke.

How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction?

From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship.

English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice.

Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated.

There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading.

COST Action IS0804 "e;Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment"e; aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across different migrant communities.

This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018.

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective.

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably "e;an endlessly fascinating linguistic category"e; (Corbett 2014: 1).

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world's languages.

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles.

Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing's 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech.

This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019.

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Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately.

Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens.

This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives.

Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile.

The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics.

Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years.

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c) learn how to combine these representations in order to communicate effectively.

The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers.

Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention.

The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders.

This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of mental processing, but that they have a dualistic organization.

The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research.

Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language.

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts.

Words are not just labels for conceptual categories.

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication.

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions.

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language.

This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and activities.

This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing.

The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact.

In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills.

This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA-7) conference.

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige.

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of 'self' in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity.

This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China.

Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of syntactic development and priming.

How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages?

This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield highly interesting findings.

Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children's verbal communication skills and are conducted from the parents' perspective.

Dynamic Assessment is an innovative approach to revealing the full range of learner abilities that has rapidly gained attention from language educators and researchers.