Evidence of children's sensitivity to statistical features of their input in language acquisition is
often used to argue against learning mechanisms driven by innate knowledge. At the same …

Second language (L2) sentence processing research studies how adult L2 learners
understand sentences in real time. I review how L2 sentence processing differs from …

This paper explores whether there is evidence for age and/or input effects in child L2
acquisition across three different linguistic domains, namely morphosyntax, vocabulary, and …

In two experiments, this article investigates the predictive processing of gender agreement in
adult second language (L2) acquisition. We test (1) whether instruction on lexical gender …

Language processing research is changing in two ways that should make it more relevant to
the study of grammatical learning. First, grammatical phenomena are re-entering the …

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 …

Research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has rapidly expanded in recent years,
yielding important developments in both theory and practice. While we have gained …

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, which
feeds a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG. In this book …

Limited language experience in childhood is common among deaf individuals, which prior
research has shown to lead to low levels of language processing. Although basic structures …

By age 2, children are develo** foundational language processing skills, such as quickly
recognizing words and predicting words before they occur. How do these skills relate to …