Differences Between Grammatical and Lexical Processing in the Late Learned Language

Abstract

The process of language learning has long attracted scholarly interest.  Foreign language teaching has extensively focused on teaching methods and learner profiles. Also, there has been growing interest in psychological and neurological bases of this process. Differences regarding the processing of different language components was a key early focus of research. Later, the focus shifted to the emotional load of the different languages spoken by bilinguals/multilinguals languages.  It has been shown that a late-learned language differs from the native language in its progress and ultimate level. A notable difference can be seen between grammatical and lexical processing. Considering psycholinguistic parameters, this paper aims to reveal how late learners deal with grammatical and lexical processing in their second / late-learned language.