Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Second Language Acquisition Facit Saltus ('Takes a Leap') -- 2. Discontinuity as Chunks Feed into Grammar -- 3. Discontinuity in the Maturing and in the Adapting Brain -- 4. Discontinuity and the Neurocognition of Second Language -- 5. Statistical Learning of a Second Language -- 6. Parts of L2 Grammar That Resist Statistical Learning -- Conclusions -- References -- Index