Contents
1 Salience in Second Language Acquisition and Related Fields 1
Susan M. Gass, Patti Spinner, and Jennifer Behney
PART I Salience in SLA Theory 19
2 Salience in Usage-Based SLA 21
3 Detectability in Feature Reassembly 41
4 The Role of Salience in Linguistic Development: A Contrarian View 64
PART II Perceptual Salience in SLA 87
5 The L2 Acquisition of Italian Tense: The Role of Salience 89
6 The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Processing L2 Inflectional Morphology 107
7 The Role of Salience in the Acquisition of Hebrew as a Second Language: Interaction With Age of Acquisition 131
8 Salience and Novel L2 Pattern Learning 147
PART III Constructed Salience in SLA 165
9 Enhancing the Input to Promote Salience of the L2: A Critical Overview 167
10 Salience, Cognitive Effort, and Word Learning: Insights from Pupillometry 187
11 Effects of Contextual and Visual Cues on Spoken Language Processing: Enhancing L2 Perceptual Salience Through Focused Training 201
PART IV Salience in Context 221
12 Salience of Noun-Adjective Agreement in L2 Latin 223
13 Measuring Lexical Alignment During L2 Chat Interaction: An Eye-Tracking Study 244
14 Task Modality, Noticing, and the Contingency of Recasts: Insights on Salience From Multiple Modalities 269
Afterword: The Role of Salience in Second Language Research 291
Index 298