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Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin’s Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition.

Second language acquisition. --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics. --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Linguistic usage --- Usage, Linguistic --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Usage. --- Psychological aspects --- Grammars --- L2 acquisition. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis. --- crosslinguistic influence. --- foreign language learning. --- linguistic relativity. --- second language learning. --- second language use. --- transfer.

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This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’, and bilinguals’ acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures.

Romance languages. --- Romance languages --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Acquisition. --- Language Acquisition. --- Romance Languages.