Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer
knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is …

Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

The book overviews a wide range of vocabulary research methodologies, and offers
practical advice on how to carry out valid and reliable research on first and second language …

The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the
foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition …

Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations,
a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve …

The Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis is the authoritative reference for the theory
behind Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a burgeoning mathematical method used to analyze …

If first language is rational in the sense that acquisition produces an end-state model of
language that is a proper reflection of input and that optimally prepares speakers for …