Learning a second language (L2) can be crucial in the present globalized society. However,
reaching the level of L1 performance of native speakers is still a challenge for many. Distinct …

This chapter reviews recent developments on the comprehension of words and sentences in
two languages, which show that the lexicon and grammar have more in common than …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

This study investigates knowledge of gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and
heritage speakers, who differ in age and context/mode of acquisition. On some current …

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without
apparent effort, without even being taught-as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling …

In a recent study, Lew-Williams and Fernald (2007) showed that native Spanish speakers
use grammatical gender information encoded in Spanish articles to facilitate the processing …

This paper reports on an experiment investigating the acquisition of Spanish, a language
that has a gender feature for nouns and gender agreement for determiners and adjectives …

There is a broad consensus in the research literature on the acquisition of bilingualism that
the simultaneous acquisition of two (or more) languages can be qualified as an instance of …

Research on child bilingualism accounts for differences in the course and the outcomes of
monolingual and different types of bilingual language acquisition primarily from two …