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The 31 pages that link to Second-language acquisition, each with the reason it gives.

• Language acquisitionBroader topic: It differs from first-language development in prior knowledge, learning conditions, and often age.

• PhonologyRelated: Learners must acquire new sound contrasts and language-specific phonological patterns.

• LanguageBroader topic: It examines how additional languages are learned and used.

• MorphemeRelated: Learning a language's affixes and inflections requires acquiring its morpheme patterns.

• InflectionRelated: Learning inflection requires acquiring how forms encode grammatical features and patterns.

• Critical periodRelated: Age-related differences in outcomes test whether language learning has a strict developmental cutoff.

• Lingua francaRelated: A lingua franca often depends on participants learning a shared language beyond their mother tongues.

• Minimal pairRelated: Minimal-pair practice helps learners hear and produce unfamiliar sound contrasts.

• Heritage languageCompared with: Heritage learners typically have family exposure that many second-language learners lack.

• Language educationNarrower topic: It provides a research framework for understanding additional-language learning.

• Agreement (linguistics)Related: Learners often acquire agreement patterns unevenly across features and contexts.

• Chinese language educationNarrower topic: Chinese instruction applies broader findings about learning additional languages.

• Communicative language teachingNarrower topic: Communicative teaching draws on theories of how additional languages develop.

• Language socializationCompared with: This field often centers linguistic development, whereas language socialization foregrounds cultural participation.

• Critical period hypothesisBroader topic: Age effects in later-learned languages are a major test of the hypothesis.

• Language immersionNarrower topic: Immersion draws on acquisition through meaningful communication, not only explicit grammar study.

• Language teachingNarrower topic: It studies the learning processes that language teaching seeks to support.

• Word orderRelated: Learners often transfer familiar ordering patterns into a new language.

• Part of speechRelated: Learning category patterns helps explain how learners form and interpret sentences.

• Language learningNarrower topic: This broader field explains learning both through deliberate study and through exposure.

• Mother-tongue educationRelated: The timing and quality of additional-language learning shape debates about when instruction should shift.

• Function wordRelated: Function words can be difficult to master because their use depends on language-specific grammar.

• PronunciationNarrower topic: Learners adapt unfamiliar sound categories and pronunciation patterns.

• English as a Second or Foreign LanguageNarrower topic: It provides the broader account of how learners develop English beyond formal instruction.

• Input hypothesisRelated: Krashen’s account addresses how additional languages are acquired.

• First languageCompared with: It contrasts with the early acquisition that defines a first language.

• Applied linguisticsRelated: Research on additional-language learning informs teaching methods and learner support.

• Second languageBroader topic: It examines the processes and outcomes central to learning a second language.

• Student exchange programRelated: Immersion in a host country can create frequent opportunities to use another language.

• Giuseppe Gasparo MezzofantiNarrower topic: Mezzofanti’s reported achievements belong to the broader study of adult language learning.

• Teaching English as a Second or Foreign LanguageNarrower topic: It investigates the learning processes that English teaching seeks to support.