Barbara Mertins is Full Professor of Psycholinguistics at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. She also serves as the head of the psycholinguistics laboratories at the university. Her main research topics include language processing of multilingualism, linguistic relativity and spatial cognition.Kateřina Šormová is a postdoc researcher in applied linguistics at the Charles University, Prague. Her work focuses on first- and second-language acquisition, language assessment, and the development of reading and writing literacy with particular interests in learner corpora and vocabulary acquisition.

• Barbara Mertins: Introduction - Katrin Odermann: A Theoretical Perspective on Language-Specific and Cross-Linguistic Development of Phonological Awareness: Implications for Research on Czech-German Bilingual Children - Joël Alipaß: Toward Generalizable Research on Infant Word Segmentation: A Review on the Two Understudied Contexts Bilingualism and Czech - Kateřina Šormová: Ethnolect Expressions in the Written Text of School-Age Children - Maryam Fatemi & Barbara Mertins: Language-Specific Patterns in Multilingual Contexts: The Case of Grammatical Gender - Silvie Převrátilová: Mapping Plurilingual Repertoires in Higher Education: Perceived Cross-Linguistic Influence - Martin Lachout: Multilingualism and Its Development at Different Levels of Education in the Czech Republic - Marie Boccou Kestřánková & Anna Paap: Toward a Structured Approach to Czech Heritage Language Education: The Case for a Specialized Textbook

Barbara Mertins is Full Professor of Psycholinguistics at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. She also serves as the head of the psycholinguistics laboratories at the university. Her main research topics include language processing of multilingualism, linguistic relativity and spatial cognition.Kateřina Šormová is a postdoc researcher in applied linguistics at the Charles University, Prague. Her work focuses on first- and second-language acquisition, language assessment, and the development of reading and writing literacy with particular interests in learner corpora and vocabulary acquisition.

• Barbara Mertins: Introduction - Katrin Odermann: A Theoretical Perspective on Language-Specific and Cross-Linguistic Development of Phonological Awareness: Implications for Research on Czech-German Bilingual Children - Joël Alipaß: Toward Generalizable Research on Infant Word Segmentation: A Review on the Two Understudied Contexts Bilingualism and Czech - Kateřina Šormová: Ethnolect Expressions in the Written Text of School-Age Children - Maryam Fatemi & Barbara Mertins: Language-Specific Patterns in Multilingual Contexts: The Case of Grammatical Gender - Silvie Převrátilová: Mapping Plurilingual Repertoires in Higher Education: Perceived Cross-Linguistic Influence - Martin Lachout: Multilingualism and Its Development at Different Levels of Education in the Czech Republic - Marie Boccou Kestřánková & Anna Paap: Toward a Structured Approach to Czech Heritage Language Education: The Case for a Specialized Textbook

Barbara Mertins is Full Professor of Psycholinguistics at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. She also serves as the head of the psycholinguistics laboratories at the university. Her main research topics include language processing of multilingualism, linguistic relativity and spatial cognition.Kateřina Šormová is a postdoc researcher in applied linguistics at the Charles University, Prague. Her work focuses on first- and second-language acquisition, language assessment, and the development of reading and writing literacy with particular interests in learner corpora and vocabulary acquisition.

• Barbara Mertins: Introduction - Katrin Odermann: A Theoretical Perspective on Language-Specific and Cross-Linguistic Development of Phonological Awareness: Implications for Research on Czech-German Bilingual Children - Joël Alipaß: Toward Generalizable Research on Infant Word Segmentation: A Review on the Two Understudied Contexts Bilingualism and Czech - Kateřina Šormová: Ethnolect Expressions in the Written Text of School-Age Children - Maryam Fatemi & Barbara Mertins: Language-Specific Patterns in Multilingual Contexts: The Case of Grammatical Gender - Silvie Převrátilová: Mapping Plurilingual Repertoires in Higher Education: Perceived Cross-Linguistic Influence - Martin Lachout: Multilingualism and Its Development at Different Levels of Education in the Czech Republic - Marie Boccou Kestřánková & Anna Paap: Toward a Structured Approach to Czech Heritage Language Education: The Case for a Specialized Textbook