Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

Debates about linguistic relativity commonly focus on one question: Does language affect
thought? This yes‐or‐no question does not do justice to the complexity of Whorf's ideas and …

The purpose of this paper is to extend the linguistic relativity hypothesis (ie, the language we
speak affects the way we think) to a script relativity hypothesis (ie, the script in which we read …

The present study examined the extent to which first language (L1) awareness can benefit
second language (L2) grammatical learning of the French Imparfait, a crosslinguistically …

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 study tests how patterns of temporal reference in the linguistic expression of advanced
Chinese learners of English co-vary with their nonverbal event categorisation. 42 learners …

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 …

This study examines the temporal architecture of Polish film retellings within the research
framework developed by Christiane von Stutterheim and colleagues, who identified …

This dissertation deals with a case of explicit syntactic treatment on a bilingual child
(Romanian–Italian) aged 7; 4, who started being exposed to her second language a few …

Much of how we sequence events in speech mirrors the order of their natural occurrence.
While event chains that conform to chronology may be easier to process, languages offer …