Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more
Taking a dynamic usage-based perspective (Verspoor & Behrens, 2011), this study explores the written English as a foreign language (EFL) development of adolescent learners in their first two years at a pesantren, a commonly found Indonesian Islamic boarding school in which English learning is… read more
Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) approaches to second language (L2) development have stressed that subsystems of language are intertwined (De Bot et al., 2007, Larsen-Freeman, 1997). A key challenge is accurately attributing causal explanations and determining suitable statistical methods… read more
Although it is well-documented in the literature that semantic congruence positively impacts memory in general and incidental memory in particular, it is unknown whether this effect extends to frame-semantic congruence. The primary objective of this study was to reveal whether frame-semantic… read more
This study contributes to the methodological debate regarding the development of innovative data collection methods such as immersive virtual reality (VR) technology to investigate second-language (L2) learners’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. Questionnaire data were collected from 32… read more
Research over more than forty years has shown consistently that earlier L2 starters do not in the long term maintain the linguistic advantage of an early start over older starters. What, then, in the light of the widespread setting aside of the evidence regarding the apparent uselessness of an… read more
This article deals with some misunderstandings about the age factor in second language acquisition which result from a reliance on an incomplete interpretation of relevant research findings. It begins with an exploration of the work of Penfield and Lenneberg and goes on to weigh recent evidence… read more
Even though we can observe striking differences in the isolating contexts of Modern English and Modern High German existential constructions, both languages feature existential constructions with locative adverbs that are the result of long processes of grammaticalisation. In Old English (OE),… read more
