Studies in

Second

Language

Acquisition

Vol. 32 No. 1 March 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Variables in Second Language Attrition: Advancing the
State of the Art
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and David Stringer

1

On the (Un)-Ambiguity of Adjectival Modifi cation in Spanish
Determiner Phrases: Informing Debates on the Mental
Representations of L2 Syntax
Jason Rothman, Tiffany Judy, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,
and

Acrisio

Pires

47

Processing of the Reduced Relative Clause Versus Main Verb
Ambiguity in L2 Learners at Different Profi ciency Levels
Anne Rah and Dany Adone

79

Crosslanguage Lexical Activation: A Test of the Revised
Hierarchical and Morphological Decomposition Models
in Arabic-English Bilinguals
Mousa Qasem and Rebecca Foote

111

BOOK REVIEWS

Cook, H. M. (2008). Socializing identities through speech style:
Learners of Japanese as a foreign language. (Laurie Schick)

141

Cenoz, J. (Ed.). (2008). Teaching through Basque: Achievements
and

challenges. (Llorenç Comajoan Colomé)

142

De Angelis, G. (2007). Third or additional language acquisition.
(Jasone

Cenoz)

144

Cohen, A. D., & Macaro, E. (Eds.). (2007). Language learner
strategies: Thirty years of research and practice.
(Luke

Plonsky)

145

Niño-Murcia, M., & Rothman, J. (Eds.). (2008). Bilingualism and
identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages.
(Debra A. Friedman)

147

Gilquin, G., Papp, S., & Díez-Bedmar, M. B. (Eds.). (2008).
Linking up contrastive and learner corpus research.
(Federica

Barbieri)

148

Benati, A. G., & Lee, J. F. (2008). Grammar acquisition and
processing instruction: Secondary and cumulative effects.
(Claire

Renaud)

150

Block, D. (2007). Second language identities. (Kim Potowski)

151

Philp, J., Oliver, R., & Mackey, A. (Eds.). (2008). Second language
acquisition and the younger learner: Child’s play?
(Susan

Foster-Cohen)

153

Bowles, M., Foote, R., Perpiñán, S., & Bhatt, R. (Eds.). (2008).
Selected proceedings of the 2007 second language
research

forum. (Maren Schierloh)

155

BOOK NOTICES

McCardle, P., & Hoff, E. (Eds.). (2006). Childhood bilingualism:
Research on infancy through school age. (Virginia Yip)

157

Kormos, J., & Kontra, E. H. (Eds.). (2008). Language learners
with special needs: An international perspective.
(Jessica A. Barlow)

158

Benati, A. G. (2009). Japanese language teaching:
A communicative approach. (Nobuhiro Kamiya)

158

Simpson, J., & Wigglesworth, G. (Eds.). (2008). Children’s
language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at
home and school. (Kendall A. King)

159

De Knop, S., & De Rycker, T. (Eds.). (2008). Applications of
cognitive linguistics: Cognitive approaches to
pedagogical

grammar. (Baburhan Uzum)

160

Publications Received

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