This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is represented by L2 learners; the changing nature of linguistic theory itself; and the definition of usage phenomena like style shifting and code switching. The introduction to The Current State of Interlanguage gives a concise yet detailed overview of research in the field over the past 10 years, and focuses on the present growing concensus on a number of issues that were at one point highly controversial.
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1. The current state of interlanguage: Introduction (by Eubank, Lynn)
2. Prominence in applied linguistics: Bill Rutherford (by Jordens, Peter)
3. I-interlanguage and typology: The case of topic-prominence (by Yip, Virginia)
4. Universals, SLA, and language pedagogy: 1984 revisited (by Gass, Susan M.)
5. Learnability, pre-emption, domain-specificity, and the instructional value of "Master Mind" (by Birdsong, David)
6. Why we need grammar: Confessions of a cognitive generalist (by Bialystok, Ellen)
7. Chasing after linguistic theory: How minimal should we be? (by White, Lydia)
8. The irrelevance of verbal feedback to language learning (by Carroll, Susanne Elizabeth)
9. Indirect negative evidence, inductive inferencing, and second language acquisition (by Plough, India C.)
10. The negative effects of 'positive' evidence on L2 phonology (by Young-Scholten, Martha)
11. German plurals in adult second language development: Evidence for a dual-mechanism model of inflection (by Clahsen, Harald)
12. Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition: Some thoughts on Schachter's Incompleteness Hypothesis (by Felix, Sascha)
13. Acquiring linking rules and argument structures in a second language: The unaccusative/unergative distinction (by Sorace, Antonella)
14. Data, evidence and rules (by Beck, Maria-Luise)
15. Markedness aspects of case-marking in L1 French/L2 English (by Zobl, Helmut)
16. Language transfer: What do we really mean? (by Martohardjono, Gita)
17. Age before beauty: Johnson and Newport revisited (by Kellerman, Eric)
18. Style-shifting in oral interlanguage: Quantification and definition (by Dewaele, Jean-Marc)
19. Observations of language use in Spanish immersion classroom interactions (by Blanco-Iglesias, Susana)
20. Some neurolinguistic evidence regarding variation in interlanguage use: The status of the 'switch mechanism' (by Lorch, Marjorie Perlman)
21. Beyond 2000: A measure of productive lexicon in a second language (by Laufer, Batia)
22. A first crosslinguistic look at paths: The difference between end-legs and medial ones (by Ross, Haj)