The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase in interest in multilingualism. Whereas a
number of scholars in language acquisition research still base their work on the monolingual …

This article addresses age-related attainment effects in second language acquisition, posing
the question of whether such effects are to be explained in terms of a Critical Period with a …

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 …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon
affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language …

The present article addresses the following question: what variables condition syntactic
transfer? Evidence is provided in support of the position that third language (L3) transfer is …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

This book discusses cognitive and psycholinguistic aspects of third language acquisition
and trilingualism, and explores the key role of linguistic awareness in multilingual …

This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning.
Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely …

NE INCIDENT DURING my years as a PhD student changed my views on Oacademic
research considerably: I was drafting a joint paper with my supervisor, Lesley Milroy, and in …