The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the latest research at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive psychology, and applied linguistics, for those seeking to understand the mental architecture and processes that shape the acquisition of additional languages. The handbook represents the full complexity of second language acquisition across the lifespan, spanning childhood bilinguals and adult L2 learners, and is inclusive of heritage languages, early bilingualism and multilingualism, and language attrition. An authoritative selection of diverse, global, leading psycholinguists synthesize the latest research to provide a thorough overview in a single volume and set the agenda for the future. The volume is organized into five key parts for ease of use: psycholinguistics across the lifespan; methods; theoretical perspectives; the psycholinguistics of learning; and transdisciplinary perspectives. This handbook will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, bilingualism, cognitive science, psychology, and research methodology.

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Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction: second language acquisition and psycholinguistics Holger Hopp and Aline Godfroid Section I: Psycholinguistics across the lifespan 2. The psycholinguistics of early bilingualism Christine E. Potter and Casey Lew-Williams 3. The psycholinguistics of child second language acquisition Sarah Schimke 4. The psycholinguistics of adult second language acquisition Carrie N. Jackson 5. The psycholinguistics of L3/Ln acquisition Jorge González-Alonso and Jason Rothman 6. The psycholinguistics of first language attrition Monika S. Schmid, Concepción Soto García-Meléndez, and Julia Heimann 7. The psycholinguistics of heritage language acquisition Silvina Montrul 8. Learning a new language in older age: psycholinguistic and cross-disciplinary approaches Jessica G. Cox and Cristina Sanz 9. Synthesis: psycholinguistics across the lifespan Theres Grüter Section II: Research methods in second language psycholinguistics 10. Studying second language comprehension Irina Elgort and Paul Warren 11. Studying second language production Sarah Bernolet 12. Studying multimodal language processing: the integration of speech and gestures Marianne Gullberg 13. Conducting reaction time research in second language psycholinguistics Philip Hamrick 14. Using corpora in research on second language psycholinguistics Sandra Deshors and Stefan Th. Gries 15. Synthesis: research methods in second language psycholinguistics Nan Jiang Section III: Theoretical perspectives on psycholinguistics 16. Word and multiword processing: memory-based and linguistic approaches Kira Gor 17. Word and multiword processing: cognitive approaches Kathy Conklin and Rüdiger Thul 18. Sentence processing: linguistic approaches Holger Hopp 19. Sentence processing: cognitive approaches to L2 morphosyntactic and morphological processing Nuria Sagarra 20. Discourse processing Saveria Colonna 21. Code-switching Janet G. van Hell 22. Synthesis: transdisciplinary approaches to understanding variability in bilingual processing and use Paola E. Dussias Section IV: The psycholinguistics of learning 23. Implicit learning and SLA: a cognitive psychology perspective John N. Williams and Patrick Rebuschat 24. Hypotheses about the interface between explicit and implicit knowledge in SLA Aline Godfroid 25. Automatization and practice Yuichi Suzuki 26. Declarative and procedural memory in second language learning: psycholinguistic considerations Kara Morgan-Short and Michael T. Ullman 27. The psycholinguistics of L2 interaction Michael H. Long 28. Working memory and second language learning: a critical and synthetic review Shaofeng Li 29. Synthesis: The psycholinguistics of learning Brian MacWhinney Section V: Transdisciplinary perspectives: contexts and future directions 30. The influence of learning contexts on the psycholinguistics of second language learning Ronald Leow 31. Psycholinguistics for the language classroom Rebecca Sachs, Melissa Baralt, and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss 32. The psycholinguistics of second language writing Rosa M. Manchón 33. The psycholinguistics of second language assessment Rob Schoonen 34. Cognitive effects of bilingualism Gregory J. Poarch 35. Synthesis: transdisciplinary perspectives on SLA: exploration versus explanation Jan Hulstijn