1. Introduction / ZhaoHong Han and Terence Odlin
2. Researching fossilization and second language (L2) attrition : easy questions, difficult answers / Constancio Nakuma
3. Establishing ultimate attainment in a particular second language grammar / Donna Lardiere
4. Fossilization : can grammaticality judgment be a reliable source of evidence? / ZhaoHong Han
5. Fossilization in L2 and L3 / Terence Odlin, Rosa Alonso Alonso, and Cristina Alonso-Vázquez
6. Child second language acquisition and the fossilization puzzle / Usha Lakshmanan
7. Emergent fossilization / Brian MacWhinney
8. Fossilization, social context, and language play / Elaine Tarone
9. Why not fossilization / David Birdsong
10. Second language acquisition and the issue of fossilization : there is no end, and there is no state / Diane Larsen-Freeman.
Studies of fossilization in second language acquisition. ISBN 9781853598357. Published by Multilingual Matters in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.