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TiLAR 30
The Acquisition of Complex MorphologyInsights from Murrinhpatha
William Forshaw
October 2021. xvi, 171 pp.
Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language... read more
LALD 66
The Acquisition of Derivational MorphologyA cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler
November 2021. ix, 307 pp.
This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically... read more
TiLAR 26
The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking
Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul
June 2020. vi, 369 pp.
Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few... read more
SiBil 63
The Acquisition of GenderCrosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
January 2022. xi, 282 pp.
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... read more
TiLAR 28
The Acquisition of Referring ExpressionsA dialogical approach
Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
June 2021. xix, 372 pp.
This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and... read more
BCT 109
Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary
Edited by Stuart Webb
August 2020. v, 234 pp.
This volume brings together a collection of chapters focused on the learning, testing, and researching of L2 vocabulary by leading international researchers including Paul Nation, Batia Laufer, Frank Boers, Elke Peters, Ana... read more
BCT 116
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning
Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser
April 2021. v, 202 pp.
This volume brings together seven empirical studies about aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI), i.e., about how (second language) learners with different aptitudes match or don’t match with different educational treatments; and... read more
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
September 2021. x, 299 pp.
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and... read more
SiBil 57
Bilingualism, Executive Function, and BeyondQuestions and insights
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian
June 2019. viii, 377 pp.
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... read more
BPA 15
Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan
Julia Herschensohn
Expected October 2022. xiii, 291 pp. + index
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... read more
BPA 10
Child Bilingualism and Second Language LearningMultidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb
December 2020. vii, 306 pp.
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... read more
LL< 54
Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development
Edited by Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
June 2020. xvii, 304 pp.
This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign... read more
LL< 53
Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
January 2020. xii, 270 pp.
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist... read more
TiLAR 27
Current Perspectives on Child Language AcquisitionHow children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
September 2020. ix, 330 pp.
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)... read more
SiBil 61
Developing Narrative ComprehensionMultilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
December 2020. vii, 341 pp.
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... read more
PALART 8
Dynamic Variation in Second Language AcquisitionA language processing perspective
Bronwen Patricia Dyson
August 2021. xv, 274 pp.
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... read more
AALS 19
English Pronunciation InstructionResearch-based insights
Edited by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González
October 2021. xix, 388 pp.
English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation... read more
RMAL 1
Ethnographies of Academic Writing ResearchTheory, methods, and interpretation
Edited by Ignacio Guillén-Galve and Ana Bocanegra-Valle
October 2021. xi, 162 pp.
This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods.... read more
BCT 121
The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
June 2022. v, 234 pp.
Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this... read more
LALD 67
Generative SLA in the Age of MinimalismFeatures, interfaces, and beyond
Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli
Expected August 2022. vii, 318 pp.
This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for... read more
Z 232
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
November 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference... read more
SiBil 58
Heritage LanguagesA language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
November 2019. xix, 302 pp.
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... read more
TBLT 15
How to Teach an Additional LanguageTo task or not to task?
Kris Van den Branden
April 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
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... read more
BPA 11
Input Processing and Processing InstructionThe acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro G. Benati
September 2021. xv, 185 pp.
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... read more
BPA 8
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
August 2019. xv, 327 pp.
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... read more
LALD 65
L1 Acquisition and L2 LearningThe view from Romance
Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu
November 2021. vi, 380 pp.
This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the... read more
TiLAR 29
Language Impairment in Multilingual SettingsLITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
November 2021. vi, 333 pp.
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... read more
BPA 9
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of EnglishA multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
May 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the... read more
LL< 57
Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts
Edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt
January 2022. x, 196 pp.
This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that... read more
LL< 55
Languaging in Language Learning and TeachingA collection of empirical studies
Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch
August 2020. vii, 313 pp.
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2... read more
SiBil 59
Lost in TransmissionThe role of attrition and input in heritage language development
Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
May 2020. vii, 276 pp.
Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the... read more
Z 233
Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
February 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of... read more
TBLT 14
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching
Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa
February 2022. ix, 282 pp.
This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched... read more
BPA 12
Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter
September 2021. xiii, 234 pp.
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... read more
Z 229
Professional Development in Applied LinguisticsA guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty
Edited by Luke Plonsky
July 2020. vi, 204 pp.
Success in academia requires more than an understanding of discipline-specific literature and an ability to teach and do research. It is also necessary to develop an understanding of a range of professionally-oriented skills such... read more
BCT 117
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children
Edited by Leigh Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen
July 2021. vi, 272 pp.
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... read more
RMAL 2
Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
Expected September 2022. xv, 323 pp. + index
Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity... read more
SiBil 62
Research on Second Language Processing and Processing InstructionStudies in honor of Bill VanPatten
Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong
March 2021. viii, 359 pp.
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... read more
BPA 14
Second Language Acquisition TheoryThe legacy of Professor Michael H. Long
Edited by Alessandro G. Benati and John W. Schwieter
August 2022. xxiv, 276 pp.
Professor Michael H. Long (1945-2021) was one of the most influential scholars in the field of second language acquisition. This volume presents a set of chapters that honour some of his key contributions in language teaching and... read more
SiBil 60
Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Fatih Bayram
November 2020. xiv, 287 pp.
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.... read more
TiLAR 31
Syntactic Priming in Language AcquisitionRepresentations, mechanisms and applications
Edited by Katherine Messenger
Expected September 2022. vi, 230 pp. + index
Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds... read more
BCT 115
Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms
Edited by Yuen Yi Lo and Angel M.Y. Lin
May 2021. v, 183 pp.
This edited volume presents a collection of empirical studies examining the teaching and learning processes in science classrooms in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. It is a timely contribution to the... read more
LALD 64
Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax
Edited by Vincent Torrens
October 2020. vi, 305 pp.
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... read more
TiLAR 25
Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive DevelopmentEssays in honour of Bencie Woll
Edited by Gary Morgan
February 2020. xv, 214 pp.
The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these... read more
BPA 13
Understanding L2 ProficiencyTheoretical and meta-analytic investigations
Edited by Eun Hee Jeon and Yo In'nami
August 2022. xi, 388 pp.
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... read more
Z 228
Visual Linguistics with RA practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
July 2020. ix, 258 pp.
This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on... read more
PALART 7
Widening Contexts for Processability TheoryTheories and issues
Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
November 2019. ix, 404 pp.
This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories... read more
LL< 56
Writing and Language LearningAdvancing research agendas
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón
November 2020. vii, 432 pp.
The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments... read more