▪ Abstract Cross-linguistic studies are essential to the identification of universal processes in
language development, language use, and language breakdown. Comparative studies in all …

Because a significant part of individuals' lives involve close relationships, an important and
substantial part of the situations they encounter consists of other people's behaviors. We …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

Italian-speaking adults and 5-to 6-year-old children were compared in a timed picture-
naming task, measuring latency as well as name agreement, in relation to frequency, age of …

Studies have found that neural activity is greater for irregular grammatical items than regular
items. Findings with monolingual Spanish speakers have revealed a similar effect when …

This study investigated whether adult and 3-to 6-year-old native speakers of Russian can
use gender-marked adjectives to predict the upcoming noun during sentence …

Loss of language-specific morphosyntactic structures, as well as the lexicon, is a hallmark of
aheritage language.'Specific to Russian, previous research suggested the lexicalization of …

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the
University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and …

We use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along with tools from NLP
and information theory, to test whether there is a relationship between the grammatical …

Gender agreement elicitation was used with Russian children to examine how diminutives
common in Russian child-directed speech affect gender learning. Forty-six children (2; 9–4; …