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.

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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 Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the latest research at the intersection of lingui

Portraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and lingui