Abstract The article considers bilingual couples of Poles with foreigners residing in Poland a special focus on the acquisition Polish by latter. Foreigners from such function not only their families but also wider circles host society. Communication needs resulting contacts outside couple and job commitments lead to situations when life society becomes challenge if these are met. Theoretical f...

The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability, however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs significantly affects the outcome. This is most clearly reflected in domains such as language, music, and athletics. This article provides a perspective on the neural and computational mechanisms underlying AoA...

One reason why the lexical capabilities of NLP systems have remained weak is because of the labour intensive nature of encoding lexical entries for the lexicon. It has been estimated that the average time needed to construct manually a lexical entry for a Machine Translation system is about 30 minutes [Neff et al. 93]. The automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge is the main field of the rese...

BACKGROUND Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition. The recommendations of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) state that bilingual children should be assessed in both the languages known by the children. However, despite these recommendations, a majority of speech an...

PURPOSE To characterize the performance of Brazilian students exposed to two languages in reading fluency, phonological memory, and rapid naming, according to grade level, and to investigate correlations between these variables. METHODS Sixty students took part in this study (50% female), enrolled in the third to the fifth grades of two elementary schools of the city of São Paulo. They consti...