Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-
native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the …

This book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins
and creoles. It assesses the current state of research and examines aspects of current …

This paper offers an overview of current models of third language (L3) acquisition,
classifying each as a Wholesale Transfer model or as a Piecemeal Transfer model. We …

Synopsis Organizado pelos professores Dante Lucchesi e Ilza Ribeiro, da Universidade
Federal da Bahia, e pelo professor Allan Baxter, da Universidade de Macau, teve a …

This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the interpretation of plural noun
phrases. Languages with articles differ in whether they use bare plurals (English) or definite …

There are striking differences, both quantitative and qualitative, between native (L1) and
nonnative (L2) linguistic behavior, for which any empirically adequate theory of L2 …

This volume addresses the growing interest amongst second language acquisition
researchers in linguistic relativity. The chapter authors conceptually explore and empirically …

Lexical semantics is concerned with inherent aspects of word meaning and the semantic
relations between words, as well as the ways in which word meaning is related to syntactic …

This article reports on an experimental investigation of knowledge of distributivity in
nonnative (L2) Japanese learners whose first language (L1) is English or Korean. The …

The parsing-to-learn hypothesis (Fodor, 1998) identifying the parser as the language
acquisition device (PLAD) is discussed for second-language (L2) grammatical acquisition …