This chapter first summarises the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that
the cognitive demands of tasks be sequenced from simple to complex for learners, and …

Twenty years ago, a state-of-the-art review in SSLA marked the coming of age of the study of
temporality in second language acquisition. This was followed by three monographs on …

Form-meaning connections (FMCs) have long occupied the interest of second language
acquisition (SLA) researchers. From the early research on acquisition orders to current day …

Abstract Nouns are generally easier to learn than verbs (eg Bornstein, 2005; Bornstein et al.,
2004; Gentner, 1982; Maguire, Hirsh‐Pasek & Golinkoff, 2006). Yet, verbs appear in …

The present study investigated the effects of intensive recasting on second language
learners' use of the Japanese aspectual form‐te i‐(ru) using a time‐series design. Four …

The aspect hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai, 1994) proposes that language learners are
initially influenced by the inherent semantic aspect in the acquisition of tense and aspect …

The latest title in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series presents a
comprehensive review of connectionist research in second language acquisition (SLA) …

Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning
phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore …

The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich
source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume …

Complex cognition in any domain of thought and endeavour, such as mathematics or music
(as when preparing a year-end financial audit of a large trading company, or performing …