The extent to which the two independent grammatical systems of a bilingual child may
actually interact has been the focus of much investigation since the late 1990s after more …

The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but
not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent …

Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively
studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under which it occurs remain unclear …

The present study aims to understand which factors contribute to different patterns of use of
referring expressions by bilingual children, by considering the triangulation between …

Several studies on heritage language (HL) acquisition investigate a single linguistic
structure, showing how language exposure or cross-linguistic effects affect its acquisition …

Language acquisition is a complex phenomenon in which internal and external factors
inevitably interact in complex ways. Our point of departure is an approach to the study of the …

Recent research has shown that the bilingual experience has positive effects on non-
linguistic cognition (;) but also negative effects on language, for example on vocabulary size …

Several studies of different bilingual groups including L2 learners, child bilinguals, heritage
speakers and L1 attriters reveal similar performance on syntax-discourse interface …

To assess the presence of cross-linguistic influence, this study compared the processing of
Dutch sentences by English–Dutch and German–Dutch bilingual and Dutch monolingual …

This chapter focuses on first generation individual attrition from the point of view of the
Interface Hypothesis (IH), which proposes that structures at the interface between syntax and …