本书是一本论文集，由14篇论文组成，从多个角度和跨学科的研究主题对凸显度在二语习得中的作用进行了深入探讨，极大地拓展了相关学术视野和研究思路。各篇论文结构清晰，对概念内涵的阐释直击本质，语言表达简洁明了，可谓清晰易懂。

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Contributors
1 Salience in Second Language Acquisition and Related Fields
Susan M.Gass，Patti Spinner，and Jennifer Behney
PART I
Salience in SLA Theory
2 Salience in Usage-Based SLA
Nick Ellis
3 Detectability in Feature Reassembly
Donna Lardiere
4 The Role of Salience in Linguistic Development： A Contrarian View
William O'Grady，Kitaek Kim，and Chae-Eun Kim
PART II
Perceptual Salience in SLA
5 The L2 Acquisition of Italian Tense：The Role of Salience
Jennifer Behney，Patti Spinner，Susan M.Gass，and Lorena Valmori
6 The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Processing L2 Inflectional Morphology
Hannelore Simoens，Alex Housen，and Ludovic De Cuypere
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