Background Bilingualism is widespread and being bilingual is more common than being
monolingual. The lifelong practice bilinguals receive from managing two languages seems …

We examined whether and how L1-L2 crosslinguistic formal lexical similarity influences L2
word choice. Our sample included two learner subcorpora, containing 8,500 and 6,390 …

Abstract Learners' native language (L1) influences their knowledge and use of second
language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this …

Approximately half of the world's population is bilingual or multilingual. The bilingual
advantage theory claims that the constant need to control known languages that are always …

2 Though one issue with the term “typological distance” is that it is not always used to refer to
overall language distance. Rather, it is sometimes used to refer to distance that is based on …