In response to negative yes–no questions (eg, Doesn't she like cats?), typical English
answers (Yes, she does/No, she doesn't) peculiarly vary from those in Mandarin (No, she …

The current study investigated the neuro mechanisms of emoji processing as sentence
predicate in written context. In the hybrid textuality which is more cognitively engaging …

Does the language we speak affect the way we think? This Element provides a synthesis of
contemporary research on the interplay between language and cognition in speakers of two …

This study focuses on the production of subject–verb (SV) agreement in number in L2
French and investigates the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in this particular …

Consensus on the extent to which cross-linguistic differences affect event cognition is
currently absent. This is partly because cognitive influences of language have rarely been …

Conceptual transfer has emerged as a prominent focus in Second Language Acquisition
(SLA) research since1998. Given the complex and diverse theoretical frameworks …

We compare the motion lexicalization patterns produced by L1 and L2 speakers of
Mapudungun, an indigenous minority language spoken in Chile and Argentina. According to …

The paper describes how affectedness is expressed in French, Spanish and L2 French by
Spanish-speaking learners attending to two parameters: the thematic role under which …

The process of acquiring a second language (L2) takes place where the first language (L1)
has already been established, so people more or less will experience L1 interference while …

This thesis investigated the acquisition of argument structure alternations, namely the dative
alternation, the benefactive alternation, and the locative alternation, by Vietnamese learners …