An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences
sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 …

The current study examined the neural correlates associated with local and global inhibitory
processes used by bilinguals to resolve interference between competing responses. Two …

Interlanguage pragmatics, unlike other areas treated in this Handbook, can be related to
second language acquisition (SLA), but also exists apart from SLA research. This chapter …

The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability,
however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs …

Deaf bilinguals for whom American Sign Language (ASL) is the first language and English is
the second language judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs in English. Critically, a …

We investigated the consequences of bilingualism for verbal fluency by comparing
bilinguals to monolinguals, and dominant versus non-dominant-language fluency. In …

Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing
executive functioning, but other studies have not revealed any effect of bilingualism. In this …

During speech comprehension, bilinguals co-activate both of their languages, resulting in
cross-linguistic interaction at various levels of processing. This interaction has important …

There are three obvious differences between first and second language learners. First,
infants who are learning language are also engaged in learning about how the world works …

In second language acquisition research, the critical period hypothesis (cph) holds that the
function between learners' age and their susceptibility to second language input is non …