Lexical stress plays a pivotal role in language processing by influencing how words are segmented, recognised, and accessed in the mental lexicon. Variations in stress patterns, realised through ...

Recent studies have highlighted divergent change as a more common outcome of language contact than previously thought. While convergent change is often attributed to bilingual cognitive pressures, ...

In many parts of the world, growing up bilingual is the norm rather than the exception. A substantial proportion of these bilingual children acquire their two languages simultaneously from birth. A ...

The research published in Language Acquisition makes a clear contribution to linguistic theory by increasing our understanding of how language is acquired. The journal focuses on the acquisition of ...

9.00-9.50 Lene Schøsler (Københavns Universitet): A diachronic perspective on support verb constructions in French 9.50-10.40 Antonio Fábregas (Universitetet i Tromsø): On light verbs, light nouns and ...

The University of Colorado Boulder is leading an effort to preserve the Arapaho language, for which there are fewer than 100 ...

This November sees veteran Young Adult author Mal Peet having something of a renewal with his first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy. As well as being his first book for adults, it’s also his ...