Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough
introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP). The study of SLP seeks to …

This study investigates how implicit and explicit learning and knowledge are associated, by
focusing on the salience of target form–meaning connections. The participants were …

Two auditory lexical decision tasks explore the role of case form (citation or oblique) and the
type of inflection (overt or zero). In native speakers, the study reports an additional …

ESL learners often show great variation in article use. This study proposes that article use
can be improved if the semantic feature (non) boundedness is introduced into ELT. This …

Second language (L2) speakers often experience difficulty discriminating speech sounds of
the nonnative language, which can result in phonolexical ambiguity. We report two …

This paper examines whether second language (L2)-English learners whose native
languages (L1; Korean and Mandarin) lack obligatory plural marking transfer the properties …

Previous research on Russian nominal inflection reports a processing advantage for the
Nominative case, the citation form, in native and highly proficient nonnative speakers …

The study investigates the effects of grammatical gender on bilingual processing. Native
speakers of Russian (a gendered language) learning English and monolingual English …

This study examined number marking comprehension among Japanese learners of second
language (L2) English, whose first language (L1) does not have an obligatory number …

This dissertation probes the L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, and L2 processing of contrasts
between two seemingly similar phenomena in English. The first, VP-Ellipsis (VPE), involves …