This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

The notion of the native speaker has occupied a prominent place in foreign/second
language research and theoretical linguistics: it has influenced both the way we theorize …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

The 'Interface Hypothesis'(IH) was put forward by Sorace and colleagues as an attempt to
account for patterns of non-convergence and residual optionality found at very advanced …

In this introduction to the special issue on Romance languages as heritage languages, I aim
to contextualize the scope of this issue and the contribution it makes to the emerging field of …

This article deals with the interface between syntax and discoursepragmatics/semantics in
bilingual speakers. Linguistic phenomena at the interface have been shown to be especially …

Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages
nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole …

Whether L2ers know this constraint was used to examine whether UG operates in SLA (see
Belikova and White (2009) for a recent overview). The logic behind it is as follows: Some …

Research on child bilingualism accounts for differences in the course and the outcomes of
monolingual and different types of bilingual language acquisition primarily from two …

In this article, a survey of current psycholinguistic techniques relevant to second language
acquisition (SLA) research is presented. I summarize many of the available methods and …