Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Input and Intake Revisited -- Chapter 2. First Exposure Studies -- Part 2: The Study -- Chapter 3. Polish-French Contrastive Analysis -- Chapter 4. Research Methodology -- Chapter 5. The Adult's Available Knowledge at First Exposure to an Unknown Language -- Chapter 6. Case Studies: Two Learners with Similar Linguistic Profiles -- Chapter 7. Speech Perception -- Chapter 8. Speech Comprehension -- Chapter 9. Grammatical Analysis -- Chapter 10. Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- References -- Index