Chapter 2. Researching Fossilization and Second Language (L2) Attrition: Easy Questions, Difficult Answers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Contributors vii
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Researching Fossilization and Second Language (L2) Attrition: Easy Questions, Difficult Answers 21
7. Chapter 3. Establishing Ultimate Attainment in a Particular Second Language Grammar 35
8. Chapter 4. Fossilization: Can Grammaticality Judgment Be a Reliable Source of Evidence? 56
9. Chapter 5. Fossilization in L2 and L3 83
10. Chapter 6. Child Second Language Acquisition and the Fossilization Puzzle 100
11. Chapter 7. Emergent Fossilization 134
12. Chapter 8. Fossilization, Social Context and Language Play 157
13. Chapter 9. Why Not Fossilization 173
14. Chapter 10. Second Language Acquisition and the Issue of Fossilization: There Is No End, and There Is No State 189
15. Afterword: Fossilization ‘or’ Does Your Mind Mind? 201
16. Index 211