According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

The book overviews a wide range of vocabulary research methodologies, and offers
practical advice on how to carry out valid and reliable research on first and second language …

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 …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical
Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

Although bilinguals rarely make random errors of language when they speak, research on
spoken production provides compelling evidence to suggest that both languages are active …

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 …

The authors investigated whether intensive musical experience leads to enhancements in
executive processing, as has been shown for bilingualism. Young adults who were …