Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue.

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use

Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showc

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance. The vast majority of

The Acquisition of L2 Phonology is a wide-ranging new collection which focuses on various aspects of the acquisition of an L2 phonological system. The authors a