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Language Acquisition

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Series Editor: Professor David Singleton, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

This new series will bring together titles dealing with a variety of aspects of language

acquisition and processing in situations where a language or languages other than the

native language is involved. Second language will thus be interpreted in its broadest

possible sense. The volumes included in the series will all in their different ways

offer, on the one hand, exposition and discussion of empirical findings and, on the

other, some degree of theoretical reflection. In this latter connection, no particular

theoretical stance will be privileged in the series; nor will any relevant perspective –

sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, etc. – be deemed out of place. The

intended readership of the series will be final-year undergraduates working on

second language acquisition projects, postgraduate students involved in second

language acquisition research, and researchers and teachers in general whose

interests include a second language acquisition component.

Other Books in the Series

Portraits of the L2 User

Vivian Cook (ed.)

Learning to Request in a Second Language: A Study of Child Interlanguage

Pragmatics

Machiko Achiba

Effects of Second Language on the First

Vivian Cook (ed.)

Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language

María del Pilar García Mayo and Maria Luisa García Lecumberri (eds)

Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition

ZhaoHong Han

Silence in Second Language Learning: A Psychoanalytic Reading

Colette A. Granger

Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Acquisition

Alene Moyer

Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning

Diana Boxer and Andrew D. Cohen (eds)

Focus on French as a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Jean-Marc Dewaele (ed.)

Other Books of Interest

Audible Difference: ESL and Social Identity in Schools

Jennifer Miller

Bilingual Children’s Language and Literacy Development

Roger Barnard and Ted Glynn (eds)

Developing in Two Languages: Korean Children in America

Sarah J. Shin

How Different Are We? Spoken Discourse in Intercultural Communication

Helen Fitzgerald

For more details of these or any other of our publications, please contact:

Multilingual Matters, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall,

Victoria Road, Clevedon, BS21 7HH, England

http://www.multilingual-matters.com

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 9

Series Editor: David Singleton, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Language Acquisition:

The Age Factor

2nd edition

David Singleton and Lisa Ryan

MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD

Clevedon • Buffalo • Toronto

This book is dedicated to Mary Coward,

whose great courage in the face of recent adversity

totally belies her name .

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Singleton, D.M. (David Michael)

Language Acquisition: The Age Factor/David Singleton and Lisa Ryan, 2nd ed.

Second Language Acquisition: 9

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Language acquisition–Age factors. I. Ryan, Lisa. II. Title. III. Series.

P118.65.S56 2004

401'.93–dc22

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 1-85359-758-9 (hbk)

ISBN 1-85359-757-0 (pbk)

Multilingual Matters Ltd

UK : Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon BS21 7HH.

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Canada : UTP, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario M3H 5T8, Canada.

means without permission in writing from the publisher.

Typeset by Archetype-IT Ltd (http://www.archetype-it.com).

Printed and bound in Great Britain by the Cromwell Press Ltd.

2004002819

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