SubjectsLinguistics / Psycholinguistics

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Profiling Autism Through Language: Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning

Sumi Kato

Existing accounts of language in autism have tended to focus on English and have rarely progressed beyond broad characterizations of pragmatic difficulty. This volume changes both. Drawing on a clinically defined corpus of Japanese-speaking individuals with ASD and combining Systemic Functional… read more

[Not in series, 246] 2026. viii, 260 pp. + index | open access

Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Neurolinguistics | Pragmatics

Theoretical Issues in Second Language Research: Challenges and new directions

Edited by Junya Fukuta, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi

This edited volume offers a systematic and critical examination of how theories in second language acquisition have been formulated, justified, and sustained, with particular attention to their status as explanatory accounts. Rather than introducing theories in isolation, the chapters revisit… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 69] 2026. xiii, 232 pp.

Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

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. xx, 244 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Phonetics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation

Edited by Jean Nitzke and Sandra L. Halverson

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 192 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies