The 'Interface Hypothesis'(IH) was put forward by Sorace and colleagues as an attempt to
account for patterns of non-convergence and residual optionality found at very advanced …

This article deals with the interface between syntax and discoursepragmatics/semantics in
bilingual speakers. Linguistic phenomena at the interface have been shown to be especially …

How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in
the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development …

This article reports the results of experiments targeting the production and interpretation of
postverbal subjects, and null and overt pronominal subjects, by near-native speakers of …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but
not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent …

Recent unrelated studies reveal what appears to be a common acquisitional pattern in
second language acquisition (SLA). While some findings show that advanced learners can …

Recent research has shown that the bilingual experience has positive effects on non-
linguistic cognition (;) but also negative effects on language, for example on vocabulary size …

A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of
bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction and to …

Summary Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers in the 1990s were initially
concerned about whether learners could reset the parameters that constrain word order (eg …