Recent years have seen increasing interest in research on bilingualism and second
language learning. These studies of bilinguals have revealed aspects of the human mind …

In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of
bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the …

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 ability to engage in fluent codeswitching is a hallmark of the flexibility and creativity of
bilingual language use. Recent discoveries have changed the way we think about …

Bilinguals have distinct linguistic experiences relative to monolinguals, stemming from
interactions with the environment and the individuals therein. Theories of language control …

An increasing body of research has investigated how bilingual language experience
changes brain structure and function, including changes to task-free, or “resting-state” brain …

Previous studies found that bilingual children and adults with typical language development
(TLD) perform better than monolinguals in novel word learning, but show lower scores on …

Most research on multilingual language control has focused on a bilingual's first (L1) and
second (L2) languages. Studies on third language (L3) acquisition suggest that, despite the …

A goal of early research on language processing was to characterize what is universal about
language. Much of the past research focused on native speakers because the native …