Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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1. Academic Unit of Human Communication, Learning and Development (HCLD), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
2. Aphasia Research and Therapy (ART) Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Interests: aphasia; discourse analysis; acquired neurogenic communication disorders; multilingualism; speech-&-language pathology; language & cognitive test development; gesture; acoustic analysis

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Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AH, UK
Interests: second language acquisition; code-switching; bilingualism and language; language contact; multilingualism
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Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Interests: areal typology; contact linguistics; language policy; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Interests: sociolinguistics & second language acquisition; societal & individual multilingualism; multilingual and multidialectal translanguaging practices; second language pragmatics; discourse & conversation analysis; Arabic studies

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Linguistics Program, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, 321B Languages Building, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Interests: neurolinguistics; multilingualism; fMRI longitudinal studies of second and third language acquisition; semiotics; semantics; language and culture
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Department of Communicative Disorders, College of Liberal Arts, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Interests: cross-linguistic child Language acquisition and assessment in monolingualism & bilingualism; SSDs; Louisiana minority languages; SLA; phonetics/phonology; morphology; clinical linguistics; psycholinguistics; measures & quantitative methods
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Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
Interests: vocabulary learning; lexicosemantic representation; lexical input processing; effects of acoustic variability in vocabulary learning and speech processing; bilingual mental lexicon; psycholinguist

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Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
Interests: language acquisition; later language development; modern hebrew; cross-linguistic comparisons; functional linguistics; discourse analysis; genre theory

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Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences Program), Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13224-1160, USA
Interests: bilingualism; multilingualism; hybrid linguistic systems; universal typology; forensic linguistics; language acquisition
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School of Education, The Wave, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2AH, UK
Interests: vocabulary acquisition; multilingualism; reading comprehension; language development; language intervention

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Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests: first language acquisition; sentence processing; language and theory of mind

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Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Dorsoduro 1075, 30123 Venice, Italy
Interests: syntax; (a)typical language acquisition; determiner systems; Italian; Italian dialects; Romance languages; Germanic languages
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1. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Mikeletegi Pasealekua 69, 20009 Donostia, Spain
2. Ikerbasque—Basque Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 3, 6 Solairua, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
3. Departamento de Lengua Vasca y Comunicación, University of the Basque Country, Barrio Sarriena, 48940 Lejona, Spain
Interests: reading; bilingualism; visual word recognition; sentence processing; sign language; neurodegeneration of language

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Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan
Interests: assessment of vocabulary; second language (L2) productive vocabulary development; productive vocabulary knowledge and fluency; second language acquisition; word association studies; lexical processing; L2 assessment
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1. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA
2. Solific, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: articulatory prosody; phonetics; voice quality; ethnophonetics; language teaching
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Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Postfach D 181, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
Interests: neurolinguistics; neurophonology; functional brain imaging; cognitive neuroscience

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School of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Interests: reading acquisition/skills; dyslexia/reading difficulties/learning disabilities; cross-language/orthography comparisons in literacy; Arabic language/literacy

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Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: sentence processing; theoretical and experimental syntax; second language acquisition of syntax
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School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Interests: psycholinguistics; anaphora; discourse processing; inference

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Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, 56 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK
Interests: discourse processing; dialogue; semantics of spatial prepositions

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School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: phonetics; phonology; linguistic typology; Italian and Romance linguistics; lesser known languages

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Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
Interests: sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of first and second language acquisition; heritage language learning and language disorders

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College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Interests: genre analysis; arbitration; discourse; discourse studies; critical discourse analysis; applied linguistics; CDA

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Faculty of Environment and Information, Keio University, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa 252-0882, Japan
Interests: lexical acquisition; relation between language and thought; sound symbolism
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Linguistics Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7407, New York, NY 10016, USA
Interests: syntactic theory; syntax-phonology interface; West African languages; fieldwork
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Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, New York, NY, USA
Interests: syntactic theory; typology; Turkish and the Turkic languages
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Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Interests: language assessment; assessment philosophy, ethics, and policy; statistics; second language acquisition
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The Department of English Language & Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Interests: vocabulary acquisition in additional languages; vocabulary testing second language acquisition; foreign language learning; reading comprehension; language attrition; lexicography; cross linguistic infl
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Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
Interests: language curriculum development; teacher education; instructed language learning; psycholinguistics; cognitive processes in language learning; research methodology; (written) corrective feedback; CALL
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Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University, 442 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: language contact; bilingualism; code-switching; Spanish and Portuguese variation; Afro-Hispanic language; creole languages
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