Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

A variety of phonological explanations have been proposed to account for why some sounds
are harder to learn than others. In this mini-review, we review such theoretical constructs …

Abstract argue against property-by-property Transfer (,) and for wholesale transfer into a
third language grammar by questioning the cognitive plausibility of “extracting a proper …

Names: Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945–author. Title: The Scythian empire: Central Eurasia
and the birth of the classical age from Persia to China/Christopher I. Beckwith. Description …

In this article we look at some of the structural properties of second language (L2) Japanese
WH questions. In Japanese the WH words are licensed to remain in situ by the prosodic …

This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the research methods used by the
Generative Second Language Acquisition framework. The authors lay out the history and …

The study of Lx phonology is under-represented in the GenSLA literature. I argue that this is
largely because the complex learnability issues in the phonological domain have been …

This chapter reconsiders input processing in second language acquisition (SLA) from the
point of view of real-time sentence processing and minimalist approaches to grammar …

It is widely known that the development of L2 speech perception and production is
influenced by the L1 phonological system (Zampini, 2008). Current models of L2 speech …

Laz Turkish (LT) is a nonstandard variety of Turkish mainly spoken by the Laz minority in the
northeast of the Black Sea Region in Turkey. LT emerged a second language variety of …