This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding the issue of the Critical Period Hypothesis. It puts forward the case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, the hypothesis …
In 2005, Science magazine designated the problem of accounting for difficulties in L2 (second language) learning as one of the 125 outstanding challenges facing scientific …
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 …
K Bice, JF Kroll - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies have demonstrated variation in language processing for monolingual and bilingual speakers alike, suggesting that only by considering individual differences will an …
H Hopp - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Second language (L2) sentence processing research studies how adult L2 learners understand sentences in real time. I review how L2 sentence processing differs from …
This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits, identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies …
Since the early 2000s, neurocognitive research on second language (L2) acquisition has been controversial as to how plastic the human brain is after puberty. Recent studies have …
M Tiv, E Kutlu, D Titone - Bilingualism across the lifespan, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter, we were tasked to address the question,“What should every cognitive psychologist know about bilingualism?” While there are many potential ways of …
E Bialystok, JF Kroll - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2018 - cambridge.org
The idea that there is a critical period (CP) for language acquisition that starts sometime after birth and ends sometime around puberty has been central to language studies since …