The present systematic review examines what factors determine when, how and to what
extent previous linguistic experience (from the first language, second language or both …

The overwhelming bias for investigations of bilingualism is to focus on the increase of
knowledge and crosslinguistic traffic from the L1 to the L2. Developments which concern …

Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-
native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the …

Research on second language acquisition and bilingual development strongly suggests that
when a previously monolingual speaker becomes multilingual, the different languages do …

Modeling the competence grammar of heritage speakers who exhibit low proficiency in their
L1 represents a significant challenge for generative and experimental approaches to …

This study investigates caption‐reading behavior by foreign language (L2) learners and,
through eye‐tracking methodology, explores the extent to which the relationship between …

One central question in the formal linguistic study of adult multilingual morphosyntax (ie,
L3/Ln acquisition) involves determining the role (s) the L1 and/or the L2 play (s) at the L3 …

This study investigates constraints on ultimate attainment in second language (L2)
pronunciation in a direct comparison of perceived foreign accent of 40 late L2 learners and …

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 …

Bilingualism can have widespread cognitive effects. In this article we investigate whether
bilingualism might have an effect on adults' abilities to reason about other people's beliefs …