The field of heritage language acquisition has seen tremendous development in the
investigation of the linguistic properties of heritage grammars. Studies of different languages …

The chapter will review the current views on how words are represented and accessed in
the mental lexicon and by nonnative (L2) speakers. It will focus on such aspects of word …

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

This study investigated the effects of semantic transparency of Chinese disyllabic compound
words on Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners' incidental learning of word …

Using written texts elicited from students with different proficiency levels, we studied the
acquisition of nominal cases in Russian as a second language. We established the order in …

This study reports on two experiments investigating the effects of script differences on
masked translation priming in highly proficient early Hindi-English bilinguals. In Experiment …

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

One of the central questions in second language processing studies is whether native (L1)
and second language (L2) readers process sentences relying on the same mechanisms or …

An auditory lexical decision task tests morphological decomposition and sensitivity to
violations in inflection in late second language learners, early learners (heritage speakers) …

Knowledge of language, its structure and grammar are an essential part of our education
and daily activities. Despite the importance of language in our lives, linguistic theories that …