Deals with the field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. This title offers research using many different languages (for example; Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, and English) and structures (for example; relative clauses, wh-gaps, gender, and number) to examine various issues in second language processing.

1. Preface; 2. Part I. Introduction; 3. Second language processing and parsing: The issues (by VanPatten, Bill); 4. Part II. Relative clauses and wh-movement; 5. Relative clause attachment preferences of Turkish L2 speakers of English: Shallow parsing in the L2? (by Dinctopal-Deniz, Nazik); 6. Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: A study of Najdi Arabic learners of English (by Aldwayan, Saad); 7. Constraints on L2 learners' processing of wh-dependencies: Evidence from eye movements (by Cunnings, Ian); 8. Part III. Gender and number; 9. The effects of linear distance and working memory on the processing of gender agreement in Spanish (by Keating, Gregory D.); 10. Feature assembly in early stages of L2 acquisition: Processing evidence from L2 French (by Renaud, Claire); 11. Part IV. Subjects and objects; 12. Second language processing in Japanese scrambled sentences (by Mitsugi, Sanako); 13. Second language gap processing of Japanese scrambling under a Simpler Syntax account (by Hara, Masahiro); 14. The processing of subject-object ambiguities by English and Dutch L2 learners of German (by Jackson, Carrie N.); 15. Connections between processing, production and placement: Acquiring object pronouns in spanish as a second language (by Malovrh, Paul A.); 16. Part V. Phonology and lexicon; 17. The exploitation of fine phonetic detail in the processing of L2 French (by Shoemaker, Ellenor M.); 18. Translation ambiguity: Consequences for learning and processing (by Tokowicz, Natasha); 19. Part VI. Prosody and context; 20. Reading aloud in two languages: The interplay of syntax and prosody (by Fernandez, Eva M.); 21. Near-nativelike processing of contrastive focus in L2 French (by Reichle, Robert); 22. Author index; 23. Subject index