Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning provides a comprehensive
overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in …

Can brief training on novel grammatical morphemes influence visual processing of
nonlinguistic stimuli? If so, how deep is this effect? Here, an experimental group learned two …

Event segmentation tests have shown substantial overlaps in how adults recognize starts
and endpoints as events unfold. However, far less is known about what role different …

Recent research shows that speakers of most languages find smells difficult to abstract and
name. Can verbal labels enhance the human capacity to learn smell categories? Few …

In response to negative yes–no questions (eg, Doesn't she like cats?), typical English
answers (Yes, she does/No, she doesn't) peculiarly vary from those in Mandarin (No, she …

Does the language we speak affect the way we think? This Element provides a synthesis of
contemporary research on the interplay between language and cognition in speakers of two …

This article brings a new perspective to the currently burgeoning interest in the power of
language to influence how speakers from different linguistic backgrounds process motion …

This article shows how cognitive grammar and cognitive linguistics theory offer a fruitful
paradigm within which the process of second language acquisition can be examined. The …

Three experiments investigated adult learners' acquisition of a novel adjective. In English
and other languages, meanings of some gradable adjectives are said to include an absolute …

Can learning a second language (L2) redirect what we perceive to be similar events? This
study investigated how Cantonese-English bilinguals categorized and processed …