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Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation

Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.

New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference

Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul

This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] 2026. vi, 389 pp.

Psycho-Historical Linguistics

Edited by Helen Engemann and Duygu Fatma Şafak

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:4 (2026) ca. 150 pp.

Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing

Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter

The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.

Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.

Epistemological issue: Translanguaging

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.

Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities

Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam

Researchers who study multilingual literacy development face the reality of complex and ever evolving conceptualizations of multilingualism and literacy across dynamic contexts, languages, and modalities. To unlock the full potential of continuous developments in Applied Linguistics, innovative… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 11] 2025. ix, 268 pp.

Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches

Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo

This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.

Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings

Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze

Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of… read more

[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.

Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 (2024) vi, 114 pp.

The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages

Stefano Rastelli

Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they also understand, through abstract and frequency-independent categories, why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 20] 2024. xii, 226 pp.

Multifaceted Multilingualism

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann

This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 66] 2024. x, 434 pp.

Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity

Edited by Elena Babatsouli

The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 67] 2024. ix, 645 pp.

Processing in Bilingual Children

Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.

Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa

Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus

Professor Albert Costa (1970-2018) was one of the most influential scholars in the fields of psycholinguistics and bilingualism. This book provides a faithful look at the most relevant lines of research in which he worked during his academic career. Written by some of his close collaborators and… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 17] 2023. vi, 297 pp.

Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert

A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] 2023. vi, 321 pp.

Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.

L3 Development After the Initial State

Edited by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield, Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes

To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 65] 2023. vi, 275 pp.

Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition

Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.

Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok

Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy

Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.

The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives.… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 63] 2022. xi, 282 pp.

Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz

This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 104] 2022. vi, 327 pp.

Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.

How to Teach an Additional Language: To task or not to task?

Kris Van den Branden

This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides up-to-date insights into the cognitive, motivational, and emotional… read more

[Task-Based Language Teaching, 15] 2022. xiii, 292 pp.

Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills

Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.

Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations

Edited by Eun Hee Jeon and Yo In'nami

This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each skill is reviewed in terms of how it has been conceptualized, measured, and studied over the years in relation to… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 13] 2022. xi, 388 pp. | open access

Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.

Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.

Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic

Alessandro G. Benati

Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 11] 2021. xv, 185 pp.

Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe

Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.

Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning

Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter

There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] 2021. xiii, 234 pp.

Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children

Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen

How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that underlie language production and language comprehension separately.… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 117] 2021. vi, 272 pp.

Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten

Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong

This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 62] 2021. viii, 359 pp.

Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10] 2020. vii, 306 pp.

Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives

Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 61] 2020. vii, 341 pp.

Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language

Edited by Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños

This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] 2020. x, 300 pp.

Mental representations in receptive multilingualism

Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.

The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge

Anne-Claude Berthoud and Laurent Gajo

Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is created and transmitted in and through communication. Today, the… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 5] 2020. ix, 158 pp.

Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language

Edited by Fatih Bayram

Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 60] 2020. xiv, 287 pp.

Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language

Marianna Bolognesi

Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.

Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.

Biscriptuality: Writing skills among German-Russian adolescents

Irina Usanova

In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 8] 2019. xvi, 257 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 (2019) iv, 132 pp.

Heritage Languages: A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.

Intercultural Experience in Narrative: Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace

Michał Wilczewski

This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning,… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 26] 2019. xix, 325 pp.

The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing

John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith

This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.

Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.

Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology

Edited by Jennifer R. Austin

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.

Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields

Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 54] 2018. vi, 403 pp.

Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English

Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 (2018) iv, 145 pp.

Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research

Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.

The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance

Edited by Peter A. Kraus and François Grin

This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the dynamics of… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 6] 2018. xix, 367 pp.

Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte

At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.

Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages

Edited by Hye K. Pae

This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope, topics addressed in this volume include word… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 7] 2018. xii, 466 pp.

Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon

Edited by Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben †

In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.

Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity

Edited by Hagen Peukert and Ingrid Gogolin

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 6] 2017. x, 269 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 (2017) iv, 140 pp.

Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the need for activities to forestall cognitive decline, experiences that… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 53] 2017. vi, 304 pp.

L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications

Edited by Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn

This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 5] 2017. x, 329 pp.

Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017

Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto

This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13] 2017. vii, 327 pp.

Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language

Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo

Bringing together contributions from some of the leading experts in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language, this volume aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current and emerging trends in research and praxis. To this end, the volume is divided into three thematic units. The first unit… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 49] 2016. ix, 353 pp.

Aging and Bilingualism

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.

Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.

Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts

Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz

This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory” by Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichler

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:6 (2016) iv, 133 pp.

Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US

Edited by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics,… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] 2016. viii, 326 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:4 (2015) iv, 147 pp.

Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin

This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.

Trilingual Language Acquisition: Contextual factors influencing active trilingualism in early childhood

Sarah Chevalier

This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French. Its aim is to ascertain the importance of different environmental factors in fostering active trilingualism. These factors include the quantity… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 16] 2015. x, 225 pp.

The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: New developmental perspectives

Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel

Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 62] 2014. v, 168 pp.

English in Nordic Universities: Ideologies and practices

Edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen and Jacob Thøgersen

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the ongoing Englishization of Nordic universities. A core objective is to contrast and address the gap between ideological representations of this phenomenon and the ways in which it unfolds in the practices on the ground. read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 5] 2014. vi, 268 pp.

Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3 (2014) iv, 120 pp.

Input and Experience in Bilingual Development

Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis

Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] 2014. ix, 204 pp.

Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives

Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz

This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.

Parsing to Learn

Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.

Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education

Edited by Peter Siemund, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova

This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 1] 2013. ix, 379 pp.

Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice

Edited by Kristin Bührig and Bernd Meyer

This volume is dedicated to applied linguistic research on multilingualism. The term “applied linguistics” is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. Furthermore, renowned scholars in the… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp.

Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation

Laura Domínguez

By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.

Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures

Edited by Scott Jarvis and Michael Daller

Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need. It… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 47] 2013. viii, 220 pp.

Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis

Edited by Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner

This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals,… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 14] 2012. xiii, 407 pp.

Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] 2012. xiv, 474 pp.

Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History

Edited by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner

This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 1] 2012. ix, 339 pp.

Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies

Edited by Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman

The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 42] 2011. vi, 371 pp.

Bilingualism in the USA: The case of the Chicano-Latino community

Fredric Field

This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 44] 2011. xviii, 320 pp.

The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.

A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and techniques

Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie

Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book, co-authored by several leading scholars in the… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 29] 2011. ix, 211 pp.

English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives

Edited by Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton

This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures, languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 8] 2011. xi, 170 pp.

Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies

Edited by Christoph Gabriel and Conxita Lleó

Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However, intonational research has… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 10] 2011. viii, 237 pp.

Modeling Bilingualism: From Structure to Chaos. In Honor of Kees de Bot

Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie

This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 43] 2011. vii, 308 pp.

Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House

This volume presents discourse production in multilingual contexts as a specific type of language contact situation. Translation may be seen as the prototypical type of multilingual discourse production, other types would include parallel text production in different languages (e.g. for websites)… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.

Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.

Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 40] 2009. xii, 219 pp.

The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition

Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen

This volume offers an ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 6] 2009. vii, 167 pp.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching

Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot

The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.

Multilingual, Globalizing Asia: Implications for policy and education. AILA Review, Volume 22

Edited by Lisa Lim and Ee-Ling Low

This special issue has Asia as its focus, springboarding primarily from the multilingual reality that defines South and Southeast Asia, but also including the regions of East Asia normally considered more monolingual. The collection of articles addresses the tensions involved in how the countries… read more

[AILA Review, 22] 2009. iv, 130 pp.

Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages

Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman

Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp.

Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor

Silvina Montrul

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.

Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?

Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey

This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners,… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 23] 2008. viii, 334 pp.

Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations

Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López

This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.

Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff

Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.

Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch

In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.

Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning

Mick Randall

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining ‘bottom-up’ decoding… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 19] 2007. x, 220 pp.

Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese

Michèle Koven

Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven’s book, “When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world…it's a different color.” Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 34] 2007. xi, 327 pp.

First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues

Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Barbara Köpke, Merel Keijzer and Lina Weilemar

This volume provides a state-of-the-art treatment of research on language attrition, the non-pathological loss of a language through lack of exposure. It combines a review of past and present research with in-depth treatments of specific theoretical and methodological issues and reports on… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 28] 2004. x, 378 pp.

A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.

(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

Edited by Natascha Müller

The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] 2003. xiv, 374 pp.

Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Marianne Starren

The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 26] 2003. vi, 361 pp.