Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Was there Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis? -- 2. Transfer and the Relationships Between the Languages of Multi-Competence -- 3. Comprehension, Learning and Production of Foreign Languages: The Role of Transfer -- 4. The Implications of Linguistic Relativity for Language Learning -- 5. Crosslinguistic Lexical Influence: Cognate Facilitation -- 6. Crosslinguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spatial Prepositions in English as a Foreign Language -- 7. Can Classroom Learners Use Statistical Learning? A New Perspective on Motion Event Construal in a Second Language -- 8. L1-Fraught Difficulty: The Case of L2 Acquisition of English Articles by Slavic Speakers -- 9. Learning Grammatical Gender in a Second Language Changes Categorization of Inanimate Objects: Replications and New Evidence from English Learners of L2 French -- 10. Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition -- 11. Contemporary Perspectives in Crosslinguistic Influence -- Index