The notion of the native speaker has occupied a prominent place in foreign/second
language research and theoretical linguistics: it has influenced both the way we theorize …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

The hypothesis that children surpass adults in long-term second-language proficiency is
accepted as evidence for a critical period for language. However, the scope and nature of a …

Within the past decade, there has been an explosion of research investigating the cognitive
consequences of bilingualism. However, a controversy has arisen specifically involving …

This chapter examines the proposal of “working memory (WM) as language aptitude”.
Specifically, it summarizes how the multiple components and functions of WM contribute to …

Phonological working memory (PWM) is important for language learning and processing.
The most studied language brain regions are the classical Broca's area on the inferior frontal …

Although variation in the ways individuals process language has long been a topic of
interest and discussion in the psycholinguistic literature, only recently have studies of …

Working memory (WM) can be thought of as the limited memory capacity that allows us to
hold a very small amount of information (eg, the sev eral digits of our telephone numbers) in …

Associations have been observed between socioeconomic status (SES) and language
outcomes from early childhood, but individual variability is high. Exposure to high levels of …

Functional connectivity (FC) techniques can delineate brain organization as early as infancy,
enabling the characterization of early brain characteristics associated with subsequent …