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 …

This article reports two intervention studies testing the effects of plurilingual teaching on
grammatical development among primary‐school students learning English as a foreign …

Norwegian allows filler-gap dependencies into embedded questions, which are islands for
filler-gap dependency formation in English. We ask whether there is evidence that …

A generative approach to language acquisition is no different from any other in assuming
that target language input is crucial for language acquisition. This discussion note …

In two visual-world eye-tracking experiments, we explore the extent to which conflicting first-
language (L1) based grammatical parses influence second-language (L2) learners' on-line …

Near-native speakers (heritage speakers and adult second language learners alike)
experience difficulty in interpreting and producing linguistic constructions that contain …

This study explores parallels and differences in the comprehension of wh-questions and
relative clauses between early foreign-language (FL) learners and monolingual children …

This study explores the boundary conditions of crosslanguage permeability in syntactic
processing among late bilinguals, testing crosslinguistic influence (CLI) both from the first …

The core notion of modern Universal Grammar is that language ability requires abstract
representation in terms of hierarchy, movement operations, abstract features on words, and …

This study investigates the representation and processing of written Chinese sentences
subject to a semantic condition (ie,“direction of change”) attached to the sentence-final …