High-level language proficiency in second language and multilingual contexts / edited by Kenneth Hyltenstam, Inge Bartning, Lars Fant.

Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: High-Level Proficiency and the Concept of Nativelikeness in Second Language and Multilingual Research Practice; 1 Age Effects on Language Acquisition, Retention and Loss: Key Hypotheses and Findings; 2 The Last Barriers in High-Level L2 Speech: Morphosyntax in Focus; 3 Discourse and Interaction in Highly Proficient L2 Users; 4 Formulaic Language in Advanced Long-Residency L2 Speakers

5 Developing Lexical Complexity in Oral Production: Limitations and Possibilities of the Advanced L2 Learner6 Reading Comprehension in Advanced L2 Readers; 7 Polyglotism: A Synergy of Abilities and Predispositions; 8 What's the Target?: A Folk Linguistic Study of Young Stockholmers' Constructions of Linguistic Norm and Variation; Index