this study was motivated by three factors, which also contribute to its significance for today’s academic writing. first, research articles are the significant means of communication between the writers all over the world. second, persuasion and organization are crucial notions in academic writing where the authors have to consider the academic audiences and their needs.  third, some writers ar...

We used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and voxel based morphometry (VBM) to investigate whether the efficiency of word processing in the non-native language (lexical efficiency) and the number of non-native languages spoken (2+ versus 1) were related to local differences in the brain structure of bilingual and multilingual speakers. We dissociate two different correlates for non-na...

Several recent theories have suggested that an increase in the number of non-native speakers in a language can lead to changes in morphological rules. We examine this experimentally by contrasting the performance of native and non-native English speakers in a simple Wug-task, showing that non-native speakers are significantly more likely to provide non -ed (i.e., irregular) past-tense forms for...