Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Second Language Acquisition Facit Saltus (‘Takes a Leap’) 1
4. 2. Discontinuity as Chunks Feed into Grammar 43
5. 3. Discontinuity in the Maturing and in the Adapting Brain 64
6. 4. Discontinuity and the Neurocognition of Second Language 96
7. 5. Statistical Learning of a Second Language 135
8. 6. Parts of L2 Grammar That Resist Statistical Learning 178
9. Conclusions 220
10. References 225
11. Index 251