Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Language and Mind -- 2. What is Grammar? A Universal Grammar Approach -- 3. Syntax and Acquisition: The Emergentist Story -- 4. Poverty of the Stimulus and Language Acquisition: From Ancient Philosophy to Neuroscience -- 5. Language Evolution and the Nature of the Human Faculty for Language -- Part 2: Properties of Interlanguage Grammars -- 6. The Mystery of the Missing Inflections -- 7. The Second Language Lexicon -- 8. Foreign Accent in a Second Language: Individual Differences in Perception -- 9. A Case of Extreme Phonetic Attrition in the German Rhotic -- Part 3: Transitions in Acquisition -- 10. Using Psycholinguistic Techniques in a Second Language Teaching Setting -- 11. Research in Memory and Processing in Second Language Acquisition -- 12. Processability Theory: Architecture and Application -- Glossary -- References -- Index