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Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction

Emilia Nottbeck

This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index

Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing

Cengiz Acartürk

Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 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.

Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications

Silvia Silleresi

This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies. It includes six chapters that cover: a review… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 68] 2023. xxi, 265 pp.

Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan

Julia Herschensohn

How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 15] 2022. xxi, 292 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

Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia

Rachel Hatchard

Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach.… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective

Bronwen Patricia Dyson

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 8] 2021. xv, 274 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.

Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions

Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman

From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more

[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 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.

Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn

Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.

Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing

Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck

This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 70] 2020. vii, 358 pp.

Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax

Edited by Vincent Torrens

The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64] 2020. vi, 305 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.

Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication

Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen

Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 65] 2019. xii, 315 pp.

The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition

Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert

Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.

Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners

Edited by Maya Hickmann †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 22] 2018. x, 444 pp.

The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain

Michael Fortescue

The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 94] 2017. vi, 192 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.

Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman

Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] 2017. xv, 234 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 and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda

Edited by Tommaso M. Milani

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 91] 2017. v, 162 pp.

Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Edited by F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek

Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 21] 2017. xii, 242 pp.

Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In honor of Stephen Crain

Edited by Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su and Aijun Huang

This book focuses on important methodological and theoretical issues in Chinese and Japanese L1 and L2 acquisition. All contributions discuss experiments using the Truth Value Judgment Task (TVJT), on three syntactic and semantic domains, binding, scope interaction, and wh- and logical expressions.… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 60] 2017. vi, 286 pp.

Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism

Edited by John W. Schwieter

The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] 2016. xvii, 453 pp.

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition

Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs, as well as empirical studies… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 3] 2016. vi, 353 pp.