The English language has several universal quantifiers, for example any and all. In ambiguous sentences such as Every girl rides a horse these quantifiers can be hard to interpret. For native speakers, it is not clear ...

Prior studies on the effect of bilingualism and immersion education on phonological awareness skills have found three intriguing effects when it comes to phonological awareness development. Firstly, bilingual children have ...

If learners of a second language aspire to acquiring native-like proficiency, the usage and understanding of idiomatic language, such as De inbreker liep tegen de lamp (in English, “The burglar walked against the lamp”, ...

In the field of psycholinguistics cognitive benefits of bilingualism is a subject undergoing intense research. It was found that bilinguals outperform their monolingual peers on different tasks that involve various cognitive ...

When recognizing spoken words, similar sounding words are temporarily considered target candidates. Previous research has shown that words overlapping with a spoken target in phonological onset compete for recognition for ...

In September 2014 the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science launched a new pilot on bilingual education in Dutch primary school (European Platform, 2014). Even though an elaborate brochure has been published on ...

There is an ongoing debate about how much transfer occurs when adult learners acquire a novel language system. However, not much attention has been paid to the earliest stages of second language acquisition, i.e. the first ...

Type of transfer has been extensively debated in SLA literature; however, L3A literature has mainly focused on source of transfer. This study looks into L3 type of transfer and provides evidence of transfer of lexical ...