What are the psychological, computational and neural underpinnings of language? Are
these neurocognitive correlates dedicated to language? Do different parts of language …

This article provides a selective overview of theoretical issues and empirical findings relating
to the question of age and second language acquisition (L2A). Both behavioral and brain …

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage
points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research …

Despite an impressive psycholinguistic effort to explore the way in which two or more
languages are represented and controlled, controversy surrounds both issues. We argue …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

This article addresses age-related attainment effects in second language acquisition, posing
the question of whether such effects are to be explained in terms of a Critical Period with a …

The existence of a" critical period" for language acquisition is controversial. Bilingual
subjects with variable age of acquisition (AOA) and proficiency level (PL) constitute a …

A basic issue in the neurosciences of language is whether an L2 can be processed through
the same neural mechanism underlying L1 acquisition and processing. In the present paper …

Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for
measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language …

How does the bilingual brain distinguish and control which language is in use? Previous
functional imaging experiments have not been able to answer this question because …