SubjectsLinguistics / Psycholinguistics

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Profiling Autism Through Language: Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning

Sumi Kato

Existing accounts of language in autism have tended to focus on English and have rarely progressed beyond broad characterizations of pragmatic difficulty. This volume changes both. Drawing on a clinically defined corpus of Japanese-speaking adults with ASD and combining Systemic Functional… read more

[Not in series, 246] 2026. viii, 260 pp. + index | open access

Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Neurolinguistics | Pragmatics

Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing

Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter

The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.

Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism

Theoretical Issues in Second Language Research: Challenges and new directions

Edited by Junya Fukuta, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi

This edited volume offers a systematic and critical examination of how theories in second language acquisition have been formulated, justified, and sustained, with particular attention to their status as explanatory accounts. Rather than introducing theories in isolation, the chapters revisit… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 69] 2026. xiii, 232 pp. + index

Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction

Emilia Nottbeck

This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xx, 244 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Phonetics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation

Edited by Jean Nitzke and Sandra L. Halverson

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 192 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies

Modality in the Architecture of Language

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics