Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively
studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under which it occurs remain unclear …

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common
language for communication between speakers whose first language is not English …

This chapter reviews the research on multilingual adults' and children's comprehension of
non-literal meanings, an aspect of pragmatic competence that has been relatively well …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

Recent research has reported superior socio-communicative skills in bilingual children. We
examined the hypothesis of a bilingual pragmatic advantage by testing bilingual, bi-dialectal …

Parallel to globalization, our world is becoming increasingly multilingual. We examined the
effect of multilingualism on irony comprehension, focusing on a specific type of multilinguals …

We investigated the effect of presenting items in a foreign language (L2) on scalar-
implicatures computation. To ensure that L2 processing was more effortful than the …

Chinese-English dual language learners (Chinese DLLs) are a growing population in the
US. Existing studies of preschool-aged Chinese DLLs mostly focused on single-word …

We examine first language (L1) attrition among 30 L1 Spanish–L2 English speakers living in
the United Kingdom. We also tested 30 recently-arrived Spaniards to the UK as a baseline …

Indirect communication occurs when a speaker does not explicitly say what s/he means but
rather only hints at it and the recipient has to make inferences to uncover the speaker's …