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Preface; 1. Bilingualism across the lifespan: an introduction KennethHyltenstam and Loraine K. Obler; 2. Early differentiation of languagesin bilingual children Jurgen M. Meisel; 3. Variation in children'sability to learn second languages Margaret Humes-Bartlo; 4.Idiomaticity as an indicator of second language proficiency Carlos A.Yorio; 5. Prefabs, patterns and rules in interaction? formulaic speechin adult learners' L2 Swedish Maria Bolander; 6. The imperfectconditional Eric Kellerman; 7. Spanish, Japanese and Chinese speakers'acquisition of English relative clauses: new evidence for thehead-direction parameter Suzanne Flynn; 8. Distinguishing languagecontact phenomena: evidence from Finnish-English bilingualism ShanaPoplack, Susan Wheeler and Anneli Westwood; 9. The boustrophedal brain:laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers Loraine K. Obler; 10.Deterioration and creativity in childhood bilingualism Herbert Seliger;11. Crosslinguistic influence in language loss Michael A. SharwoodSmith; 12. Bilingualism in Alzheimer's dementia: two case studiesKenneth Hyltenstam and Christopher Stroud; 13. Language processing inthe bilingual: evidence from language mixing Ellen Perecman; Index.