Language Processing and Second Language Development: Processability Theory

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of external attention-drawing devices (output and visual input enhancement) on the acquisition of English relativization by adult English as a second language (ESL) learners.

TL;DR: The authors considers the apparent irrationalities of L2 acquisition, that is the shortcomings where input fails to become intake. But the success of L1 acquisition and the limitations of l2 acquisition both derive from the same basic learning principles.

TL;DR: This Special Issue is motivated by the belief that interests in language can better be furthered when it is conceived of as the emergent properties of a multi-agent, complex, dynamic, adaptive system, a conception that usefully conflates a property theory with a transition theory.

TL;DR: The authors argue that there is a qualitative difference between the acquisition of a true second language (L2) and the subsequent acquisition of an L3 and present counter-evidence to this hypothesis from two groups of learners with different L1s and L2s acquiring Swedish or Dutch as L3.

TL;DR: In this article, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech.

TL;DR: This paper revisited the acquisition theory and language learnability and language devlopment revisited in the context of lexical entries and lexical rules, assuming and postulating phrase structure rules phrase stucture rules - developmental considerations inflection complementation and control auxiliaries lexical entry and lexitional rules.