Point Counterpoint
Universal Grammar in the second language
Published on 9. August 1991
Book
Hardback
439 pages
978-1-55619-236-4 (ISBN)
Description
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental questions, viz., the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view. Contributors (c) and Respondents (r) are: Wolfgang Klein (c)/Nina Hyams (r); Sascha Felix (c)/Jacquelyn Schachter (r); Suzanne Flynn & Sharon Manuel (c)/David Birdsong (r); Lydia White (c)/Robert Bley-Vroman (r); Peter Jordens (c)/Lynn Eubank (r); Jurgen Meisel (c)/Bonnie Schwartz (r); Sharon Hilles (c)/William O'Grady (r); Daniel Finer (c)/Margaret Thomas (r); Usha Lakshmanan (c)/Nina Hymans & Ken Safir (r).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
710 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-236-4 (9781556192364)
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Content
1. Introduction: Universal Grammar in the Second Language (by Eubank, Lynn); 2. Seven Trivia of Language Acquisition (by Klein, Wolfgang); 3. Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion: Comments on Wolfgang Klein (by Hyams, Nina); 4. The Accessibility of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition (by Felix, Sascha); 5. Issues in the Accessibility Debate: A Reply to felix (by Schachter, Jacquelyn); 6. Age-dependent Effects in Language Acquuisition: An Evaluation of "Critical Period" Hypotheses (by Flynn, Suzanne); 7. On the Notion of "Critical Period" in UG/L2 Theory: A Response to Flynn and Manuel (by Birdsong, David); 8. Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies? (by White, Lydia); 9. Processing, Contraints on Acquisition, and the Parsing of Ungrammatical Sentences (by Bley-Vroman, Robert); 10. Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition (by Jordens, Peter); 11. Transfer or Universal Grammar: Reply to Jordens (by Eubank, Lynn); 12. Principles of Universal Grammar and Strategies of Language Learning: Some Similarities and Differencies between First and Second Language Acquisition (by Meisel, Jurgen M.); 13. Conceptual and Empirical Evidence: A Response to Meisel (by Schwartz, Bonnie D.); 14. Access to Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition (by Hilles, Sharon); 15. Language Acquisition and the "Pro-Drop" Phenomenon: A response to Hilles (by O'Grady, William); 16. Binding Parameters in Second Language Acquisition (by Finer, Daniel L.); 17. Do Second Language Learners Have "Rogue" Grammars of Anaphora? (by Thomas, Margaret); 18. Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child Second Language Acquisition (by Lakshmanan, Usha); 19. Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan (by Hyams, Nina); 20. Abbreviations; 21. Index