This book provides a snapshot of the field of language acquisition at the beginning of the 21st Century. It represents the multiplicity of approaches that characterize the field and provides a review of current topics and debates, as well as addressing some of the connections between sub-fields and possible future directions for research.

MEAOLA AMITUANAI-TOLOA is Associate Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre, and Lecturer and Associate Dean Pasifika at The University of Auckland, New Zealand RUTH BERMAN is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel GEORGIE COLUMBUS is a phraseologist working in corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics SUSAN GASS is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, USA MARIA TERESA GUASTI is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy MAYA HICKMANN KOENRAAD KUIPER is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand STUART MCNAUGHTON NATASCHA MÜLLER is Professor of Romance linguistics (French, Italian, Spanish) at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany IRA A. NOVECK is a research scientist at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives in Lyon, France ANN PETERS is Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. NAUSICAA POUSCOULOUS JUDY REILLY MATTHEW SAXTON is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, the Institute of Education, University of London, UK NORBERT SCHMITT is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK MARILYN VIHMAN is Professor of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK JILL DE VILLIERS PETER DE VILLIERS EMA WOLFGRAMM-FOLIAKI