Aims and Objectives: This study investigates the use of definite noun phrases involving
demonstratives in adolescent and adult monolingually raised and heritage speakers of …

A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual
speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity …

We examined how relative language dominance impacts Spanish–English bilinguals'
crosslinguistic and nonlinguistic interference resolution abilities during a web-based …

Statistical learning, that is, our ability to track and learn from distributional information in the
environment, plays a fundamental role in language acquisition, yet little research has …

Language proficiency is a critically important factor in research on bilingualism, but
researchers disagree on its measurement. Validated objective measures exist, but …

Recent conceptualisations of bilingualism are moving away from strict categorisations,
towards continuous approaches. This study supports this trend by combining empirical …

speaking countries such as Australia, the English proficiency of bilingual children, who also
speak a heritage language (HL), has persistently been a matter of concern. Research …

The phenomenon of language change in contact has been explored most significantly in
speakers of a language who migrate, while fewer studies explore how language is affected …

This study investigates the production of clausal embeddings by 195 Russian speakers (67
monolingually raised speakers, 68 heritage speakers in the US, and 60 heritage speakers in …

The Latine population in the United States is increasing, leading to a higher need for
bilingual counseling services. Therefore, counselor educators and supervisors must ensure …