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This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social, and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must therefore be considered alongside these essential aspects of learner experience.

Second language acquisition --- Language acquisition --- Langue seconde --- Langage --- Research --- Age factors --- Acquisition --- Recherche --- Facteurs liés à l'âge --- Child development. --- Second language acquisition. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics). --- Child development --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Facteurs liés à l'âge --- Second language learning --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Development --- Developmental biology --- Developmental psychobiology --- Child rearing --- SLA. --- accent and language learning. --- age and SLA. --- age factor in SLA. --- age in second language acquisition. --- cognitive factors and language attainment. --- foreign accent. --- foreign language accent. --- psychological factors and language attainment. --- second language acquisition. --- social factors and language attainment.

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Language learners beyond early childhood are scarcely expected to reach native-like abilities in their new language, yet some do. Are these individuals uniquely gifted? If so, are such gifts innate, or the result of intense drive, optimal experience, opportunity, or something else altogether? Bringing together theory and empirical work from across disciplines, this ground-breaking book aims to better understand the perennial mystery of giftedness in language learning (GLL). Incorporating quantitative, qualitative, and case study data, this analysis demonstrates the need to reach across cognitive, neural, emotional, psychological, and social lines to understand native-likeness in a second language. All such 'outliers' face limits, potentials, and choices. What they do in the face of these is key. With this complexity in mind, specific recommendations are provided to re-orient the research toward an appreciation of the individual's role, and a clearer understanding of the inherent balance of nature and nurture in GLL.

Second language acquisition. --- Language and languages --- Gifted persons --- Study and teaching. --- Education. --- Geniuses --- Gifted adults --- Prodigies (Persons) --- Talented persons --- Persons --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition --- Education

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Linguistics --- English language --- Languages in contact. --- Second language acquisition --- Accents and accentuation. --- Pronunciation by foreign speakers. --- Social aspects.