The term multicompetence describes “the compound state of a mind with two
grammars”(Cook, 1991a, p. 112). This paper reviews evidence addressing two questions: 1 …

Dowty's (1991) theory of argument selection has proved remarkably influential, though it is
rather modest in scope and was never intended as a fullyfledged theory of mapping …

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 …

Li Wei here examines the social mechanisms of language shift and patterns of language
choice in a Chinese community at Tyneside near Newcastle, UK, where over 80% of the …

Recent research indicates that (a) the perception and expression of facial emotion are
lateralized to a great extent in the right hemisphere, and,(b) whereas facial expressions of …

In Chapters 1 and 2, I made the claim that developing an explanatory theory of SLA will
necessarily involve finding a way to link a theory of grammar to theories of perception …

An up-to-date, integrated analysis of the language disturbances associated with brain
pathology, this book examines the different types of aphasia combining two clinical …

This book introduces the reader to both neurolinguistics per se and the neuropsychological
aspects of bilingualism. Neurolinguistics may roughly be defined as a subset of …

Code-switching has received considerable attention in recent years from linguists and
sociolinguists, and it is no surprise, therefore, that researchers in the other fields of …

In three experiments, native Cantonese speakers were asked to read words aloud, name
pictures, and translate words. In the study, subjects with different degrees of proficiency in …