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Introduction Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Simona Pekarek Doehler Acknowledgements Articles On the existence of scrambling in the grammar of Japanese elementary EFL learners Yoichi Miyamoto and Yuka Iijima The interpretation of pronouns by Japanese Learners of English Myoko Ito L2 root infinitives uprooted and revisited Elena Gavruseva Unlearning V2: Transfer, markedness, and the importance of input cues in the acquisition of word order in English by Norwegian children Marit R. Westergaard Long-term effects of an earlier start: An analysis of EFL written production Teresa Navés, Maria Rosa Torras and M. Luz Celaya Towards a characterisation of saliency on first exposure to a second language Rebekah Rast and Jean-Yves Dommergues Native-like attainment in L2 syntax Sonja van Boxtel, Theo Bongaerts and Peter-Arno Coppen Linguistic structure and information organisation: The case of very advanced learners Christiane von Stutterheim Producing and learning to produce utterances in social interaction Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay Tearing us apart again: The paradigm wars and the search for validity Tim McNamara