This article provides an overview of recent studies in second language acquisition that use
tasks that elicit learners' judgments about the grammaticality of language or learners' …

In this paper, we provide quantitative evidence showing that languages spoken by many
second language speakers tend to have relatively small nominal case systems or no …

A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of
immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study …

This study examined the second language (L2) acquisition of the Korean plural marker-tul
by native speakers of English. Seventy-seven learners at four Korean proficiency levels …

Language is the primary repository and mediator of human collective knowledge. A central
question for evolutionary linguistics is the origin of the combinatorial structure of language …

Languages spoken in larger populations are relatively simple. A possible explanation for
this is that languages with a greater number of speakers tend to also be those with higher …

This article explores how multiple linguistic cues interact in predictive processing among
second language (L2) learners. In a visual-world eye-tracking experiment, we investigated …

This longitudinal study examined growth patterns of written syntactic complexity of Turkish
learners of English. Using a nonexperimental corpus of 852 writing samples by 284 English …

Situated within second language (L2) research about the acquisition of morphosyntax, this
study investigated English L2 speakers' detection and primed production of a novel …

Languages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding
strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding–called lexical diversity …