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Informationen zum Autor Ewa Dabrowska is Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Language and Cognition at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg as well as Profressor of Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses around three main themes: individual differences in linguistic knowledge in both native and non-native speakers and their causes; the mental status of linguistic units and generalizations, and the role of lexically specific units in language acquisition and production. Sible Andringa is Assitant Professor in the Department of Dutch studies at the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses on the role of input, instruction and awareness in early and late second language learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Sible Andringa and Ewa D¿browska Individual Differences in First and Second Language Ultimate Attainment and Their Causes..................................................................................5-12 Patricia J. Brooks and Vera Kempe More Is More in Language Learning: Reconsidering the Less-Is-More Hypothesis...........................................................................13-41 Maja Curcic, Sible Andringa, and Folkert Kuiken The Role of Awareness and Cognitive Aptitudes in L2 Predictive Language Processsing................42-71 Ewa D¿browska Experience, Aptitude, and Individual Differences in Linguistic Attainment: A Comparison of Native and Nonnative Speakers....................................................................72-100 Catherine J. Doughty Cognitive Language Aptitude...............................................................................................101-126 Gisela Granena and Yucel Yilmaz Corrective Feedback and the Role of Implicit Sequence-Learning Ability in L2 Online Performace.....................................................................................................127-156 Jan H. Hulstijn An Individual-Differences Framework for Comparing Nonnative with Native Speakers: Perspectives From BLC Theory............................................................................................157-183 Wander M. Lowie and Marjolijn H. Verspoor Individual Differences and the Ergodicity Problem..................................................................184-206 Simone E. Pfenninger and David Singleton Starting Age Overshadowed: The Primacy of Differential Environmental and Family Support Effects on Second Language Attainment in an Instructional Context.............................207-234 Index..............................................................................................................................235-236...