Download or read book Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition written by Stefano Rastelli and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process due to the existence of two different - albeit interconnected - ways of learning: Statistical Learning and Grammatical Learning. It describes how the switch between ways of learning could take place and its developmental implications for adult SLA.