A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This ...

Bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) represent dynamic areas of research that elucidate how individuals acquire, develop and maintain proficiency in more than one language.

Research Interests: I use behavioral and neuroimaging methods to investigate how linguistic input influences language processing, specifically in syntactic comprehension. My work focuses on linguistic ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...