Second language acquisition and the critical period hypothesis / 
edited by David Birdsong. 
 - xii, 191 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - Second language acquisiton research : theoretical and methodological issues.  Monographs on research methodology .
 - Second language acquisition research. Second language acquisition research.  Monographs on research methodology. .
<br/><br/> Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Aug. 1996, Jyv✹kyl衬 Finland. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : whys and why nots of the critical period hypothesis for second language acquisition / David Birdsong -- Functional neural subsystems are differentially affected by delays in second language immersion : ERP and behavioral evidence in bilinguals / Christine M. Weber-Fox and Helen J. Neville -- Co-evolution of language size and the critical period / James R. Hurford and Simon Kirby -- Critical periods and (second) language acquisition : divide et impera / Lynn Eubank and Kevin R. Gregg -- Age of learning and second language speech / James E. Flege -- Ultimate attainment in L2 pronunciation : the case of very advanced late L2 learners / Theo Bongaerts -- Confounded age : linguistic and cognitive factors in age differences for second language acquisition / Ellen Bialystok and Kenji Hakuta. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415745086 (paperback.)  RM168.84 041574508X (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Second language acquisition--Congresses.