The overwhelming bias for investigations of bilingualism is to focus on the increase of
knowledge and crosslinguistic traffic from the L1 to the L2. Developments which concern …

Over the last decade, research on multilingualism has grown and has provided researchers
with new insights into the mechanisms at work in the multilingual brain. While some studies …

Using the lenses of bilingualism and social justice, I reflect on relevant conceptual and
methodological issues encountered in the study of the linguistic development of heritage …

Research on second language acquisition and bilingual development strongly suggests that
when a previously monolingual speaker becomes multilingual, the different languages do …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

This investigation aimed to provide insights into the controversial debate on the role that age
at onset of bilingualism plays in human language capacity with a focus on what it entails for …

Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the
complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and …

This article proposes a formal model of the human language faculty that accommodates the
possibility of 'attrition'(modification or loss) of morphosyntactic properties in a first language …

This study investigates whether lexical knowledge in the first language (L1) of late Turkish-
Dutch bilinguals becomes less accessible for the production of fluent speech and in …

A controversial topic in research on second-language acquisition is whether residual
variability and optionality in high-proficiency late second-language (L2) learners is merely …