This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary second language acquisition from a linguistic point of view.

John Archibald is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. He is author of Language Learnability and L2 Phonology (1993) and Second Language Phonology (1998). He is co-author of Research Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition (1995) and editor of Phonological Acquisition and Phonological Theory (1995).