Studying Processability Theory

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An Introductory Textbook

Manfred Pienemann Jörg-U. Keßler(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 17. August 2011

XI, 179 Seiten

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Studying Processability Theory
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I. The facts
1. Developmental schedules
1. Introduction and overview
2. English question formation
3. Analysing ESL question formation in interlanguage data
4. The big picture: ESL development
Summary
Study questions
2. Learner variation
1.Introduction
2. Variation and solving developmental problems
3. Variation and linguistic redundancy
4. The role of conversational context
5. The role of grammar
6. The role of situational context
Summary
Study questions
PART II. The theory
3. The psycholinguistic basis of PT
1. Introduction
2. Key features of language production
2.1 Processing components are relatively autonomous specialists which operate largely automatically
2.2 Processing is incremental
2.3 The output of the processor is linear, while it may not be mapped onto the underlying meaning in a linear way
2.4 Grammatical processing has access to a grammatical memory store
3. Incremental language generation
4. The processability hierarchy
5. LFG and processability
6. Feature unification
7. Linking arguments and constituents to functions
Summary: Processability hierarchy
Study questions
4. Explaining developmental schedules
1. ESL acquisition: Empirical evidence
2. Applying the processability hierarchy to ESL acquisition
Summary
Study questions
5. Explaining learner variation
1. Learner variation is constrained
2. Learner language is steady - despite learner variation
3. Bad variational choices trigger stabilization
Summary
Study questions
6. L1 transfer
1. The Developmentally moderated transfer hypothesis
2. The rationale of the DMTH
3. Empirical evidence
4. A common misunderstanding
Summary
Study questions
7. Research Methodology
1. Data collection
2. The role of communicative tasks in data collection
3. Transcription
4. Finding regularities: Data analysis and implicational scaling
5. What counts as acquired? Data density and acquisition criteria
Summary
Study questions
PART III. Applying PT to other contexts
8. Japanese as a second language
1. Some key features of Japanese grammar
2. Empirical support
3. Brief overview of work on Japanese L2 within the PT framework
Summary
Study questions
9. Pidgins and Creoles
1. Introduction
1.1 Tok Pisin (West Sepik dialect)
1.2 Ghanaian Pidgin English
1.3 Sranan
2. Inflectional morphology in pidgins and creoles
3. Syntactic structures
3.1 Basic word order: SVO, SOV
3.2 Question formation
3.3 Negation
4. Conclusion
Summary
Study questions
10. Bilingual first language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. A brief description of methods used for comparing linguistic development across the different languages in BFLA
3. Using PT for cross-linguistic comparison
4. A case study of a Japanese-English bilingual child
4.1 Data
4.2 Haru's morphological development of English and Japanese
4.3 English
4.4 Japanese
4.5 Comparison of Japanese and English
Summary
Study questions
PART IV. Practical applications
11. Diagnosing L2 development
1. Introduction
2. Rapid Profile - The history
3. Linguistic profiling of ESL development using Rapid Profile
3.1 Training the analysts
3.2 Interactive training sessions
3.3 Eliciting speech samples
4. Tasks for data elicitation
5. Rapid Profile - A feasibility study for the EFL classroom
5.1 Overview of the main results of the study
6. Future perspectives
6.1 Extending the stages of acquisition
6.2 Implications for teaching
6.3 Multilingual Rapid Profile
Summary
Study questions
12. Teaching
1. Introduction
2. The Teachability Hypothesis
3. Input and output in foreign language teaching
4. Developmentally moderated approaches to the foreign language classroom: Focus on form and TBLT
Summary
Study questions
References
Appendices
Appendix A:Transcript A
Appendix B:Transcript B
Appendix C
Name index
Subject index

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