Presenting a synthesis of the work concerning crosslinguistic influence, or 'transfer', this book offers an account of transfer in second-language learning and its consequences for language and thought. It covers the transfer in both production and comprehension, and ideas such as the distinction be[...]

Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners' language backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book a[...]