According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

Abstract Language switching has been one of the main tasks to investigate language
control, a process that restricts bilingual language processing to the target language. In the …

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages
influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and …

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 is a personal book: it reflects my own view of the field of language contact. It is not an
attempt to provide an exhaustive account of the many different approaches that other …

This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is
the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language …

Five experiments are reported in which the picture naming performance of bilingual
speakers in a language-switching task was explored. In Experiment 1, Spanish learners of …

The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the study of language contact,
associated partly with the linguistic effects of globalization and increased migration all over …

Ninety-six participants, who were younger (20 years) or older (68 years) adults and either
monolingual or bilingual, completed tasks assessing working memory, lexical retrieval, and …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …