The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently,
bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition …

Self-paced reading tests (SPRs) are being increasingly adopted by second language (L2)
researchers. Using SPR with L2 populations presents specific challenges, and its use is still …

A growing body of research has investigated bilingual sentence processing. How to account
for differences in native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing is controversial. Some explain …

language (L2) learners were true differences in underlying grammatical competence,
perhaps due to a lack of access to Universal Grammar after a critical period, or more …

Bilingualism has been shown to affect the structure of the brain, including cortical regions
related to language. Less is known about subcortical structures, such as the basal ganglia …

This article has two main goals. The first is to summarize and comment on the current state
of affairs of generative approaches to SLA (GenSLA), 35 years into its history. This …

Recent years have seen an expansion in the research related to structural brain adaptations
related to the acquisition and processing of additional languages. However, the …

Learning a second language (L2) can be crucial in the present globalized society. However,
reaching the level of L1 performance of native speakers is still a challenge for many. Distinct …

The experience of learning and using a second language (L2) has been shown to affect the
grey matter (GM) structure of the brain. Importantly, GM density in several cortical and …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …