This article reviews recent research on the second language acquisition of meaning with a
view of establishing whether there is a critical period for the acquisition of compositional …

Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W.(1992). Configurationality in the Light of Language
Comprehension: The Order of Arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, Konstanz …

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides an overview and analysis of current second
language acquisition research conducted within the generative linguistic framework. Lydia …

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without
apparent effort, without even being taught-as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling …

To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the
present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences …

It has been suggested that tense and aspect distributions are very difficult to learn in a
second language (L2), they are prone to fossilize universally, and their interpretive …

The first book-length treatment of its type, Ultimate Attainment in Second Language
Acquisition is a case study with a solid theoretical grounding that examines the language of …

In recent work by Tsimpli (2003) and Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (to appear) an explicit
claim is made about the nature of end-state grammars in older second language (L2) …

In recent research on L2 acquisition, there has been considerable emphasis on interfaces
between the linguistic system and grammar external components, such as syntax/discourse …

One of the central questions in contemporary adult second language acquisition theory is
whether, and to what extent, Universal Grammar (UG) still constrains the acquisition …