Late bilinguals who spend (part of) their adult lives in an environment where a language
other than the one they learned in childhood is spoken typically experience a range of …

This study examines the extent to which extra-linguistic factors such as language
dominance, order of acquisition and language of instruction are deterministic for multilingual …

We explore the relationship between first language attrition and language dominance,
defined here as the relative availability of each of a bilingual's languages with respect to …

This thesis is concerned with the outcomes of the parallel processes of first language
maintenance and second language acquisition in adult bilinguals resident in a second …

A considerable amount of research has been devoted to exploring how bilinguals
accommodate their languages. Since it has long been assumed that the native language …

Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the
complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and …

A controversial topic in research on second-language acquisition is whether residual
variability and optionality in high-proficiency late second-language (L2) learners is merely …

Within the field of SLA, the incidence of nativelikeness in second language (L2) speakers
has typically been explained as a function of age of acquisition. An alternative interpretation …

Whereas the cognitive advantages brought about by bilingualism have recently been called
into question, the so-called 'lexical deficit'in bilinguals is still largely taken for granted. Here …

The present article provides an exploration of ultimate attainment in second language (L2)
and its limitations. It is argued that the question of maturational constraints can best be …