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 ...

Second Language Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, Special Issue: 25th anniversary issue (April 2009), pp. 335-341 (7 pages) Lardiere suggests that second language acquisition (SLA) researchers should pay more ...

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language ...

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, ...

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