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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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