This stage is a real bummer. The only thing that you’ve got going for you is your hope and enthusiasm. At the very beginning of this stage, people speaking Spanish to you might as well be making ...

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

Vol. 25, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Reconsidering the Role of SLA in Pidginization and Creolization (June 2003), pp. 185-209 (25 pages) This article discusses how research on language transfer in the field ...

Around 45% of children in Austrian day nurseries have a first language other than German. Those who our experiencing difficulty in learning the second language are often diagnosed as having a ...

The sixth edition of the South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) will be held between 17-19 November 2025 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The conference will ...