Salience in Second Language Acquisition

Salience in Second Language Acquisition brings together contributions from top scholars of second language acquisition (SLA) in a comprehensive volume of the existing literature and current research on salience. In the first book to focus exclusively on this integral topic, the editors and contributors define and explore what makes a linguistic feature salient in sections on theory, perpetual salience, and constructed salience. They also provide a history of SLA theory and discussion on its contemporary use in research. An approachable introduction to the topic, this book is an ideal supplement to courses in SLA, and a valuable resource for researchers and scholars looking for a better understanding of the subject.

1 Salience in Second Language Acquisition and Related Fields Susan M. Gass, Patti Spinner, and Jennifer Behney Part I Salience in SLA Theory 2 Salience in Usage-Based SLANick Ellis 3 Detectability in Feature ReassemblyDonna Lardiere 4 The Role of Salience in Linguistic Development: A Contrarian ViewWilliam O’Grady, Kitaek Kim, and Chae-Eun Kim Part II Perceptual Salience in SLA 5 The L2 Acquisition of Italian Tense: The Role of Salience Jennifer Behney, Patti Spinner, Susan M. Gass, and Lorena Valmori 6 The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Processing L2 Inflectional MorphologyHannelore Simoens, Alex Housen, and Ludovic De Cuypere 7 The Role of Salience in the Acquisition of Hebrew as a Second Language: Interaction With Age of AcquisitionRobert DeKeyser, Iris Alfi-Shabtay, Dorit Ravid, and Meng Shi 8 Salience and Novel L2 Pattern LearningKim McDonough and Pavel Trofimovich Part III Constructed Salience in SLA 9 Enhancing the Input to Promote Salience of the L2: A Critical OverviewRonald P. Leow and Alexandra Martin 10 Salience, Cognitive Effort, and Word Learning: Insights from PupillometryKelli Ryan, Phillip Hamrick, Ryan T. Miller, and Christopher A. Was 11 Effects of Contextual and Visual Cues on Spoken Language Processing: Enhancing L2 Perceptual Salience Through Focused TrainingDebra M. Hardison Part IV Salience in Context 12 Salience of Noun-Adjective Agreement in L2 LatinJohn Sarkissian and Jennifer Behney 13 Measuring Lexical Alignment During L2 Chat Interaction: An Eye-Tracking StudyMarije Michel and Bryan Smith 14 Task Modality, Noticing, and the Contingency of Recasts: Insights on Salience From Multiple ModalitiesNicole Ziegler Afterword: The Role of Salience in Second Language ResearchPatti Spinner, Jennifer Behney, and Susan M. Gass Index

Susan M. Gass is University Distinguished Professor in the Second Language Studies Program at Michigan State University, USA. She has served as President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and of the International Association of Applied Linguistics. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is the current co-editor of Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Patti Spinner is Associate Professor in the Second Language Studies Program at Michigan State University, USA. Jennifer Behney is Assistant Professor of Italian and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Youngstown State University, USA.