Sensitive periods in human development have often been proposed to explain age-related
differences in the attainment of a number of skills, such as a second language (L2) and …

Over the last decade, research on multilingualism has grown and has provided researchers
with new insights into the mechanisms at work in the multilingual brain. While some studies …

Interlanguage pragmatics, unlike other areas treated in this Handbook, can be related to
second language acquisition (SLA), but also exists apart from SLA research. This chapter …

Bilingual subjects continuously face the challenge of controlling their two languages during
communication to avoid interference from the nontarget language (Hernandez et al. 2005) …

Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we examined the neurocognition of late-learned
second language (L2) Spanish in two groups of typical university foreign-language learners …

Cases of language loss and recovery bring up an intriguing paradox. If two languages are
stored in the brain, how can it be that a person can lose one of them, but not the other, and …

In this study, we sought to identify cognitive predictors of individual differences in adult
foreign-language learning and to test whether metalinguistic awareness mediated the …

Language acts as an intermediary between thought and sound in such a way that the
combination of both necessarily produces a mutually complementary delimitation of units …

This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have
different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the …

The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive control mechanisms in adult English
speaking monolinguals compared to early sequential Spanish–English bilinguals during the …