Universal Grammar and the Initial State of Second Language Learning
Evidence of Chinese Multidialectal Children's Acquisition of English at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Published on 7. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 76 pages
978-981-15-2451-6 (ISBN)
Description
Under the Universal Grammar (UG) framework, this book discusses the latest research on the role of L1 bidialectism in L2 acquisition, with a particular focus on early Chinese(L1)-English(L2) learners. Responding to the long-standing concern of whether L2 learners have access to UG in the target language, it provides evidence of the positive role of L1 multidialectism in L2 learning and confirms the role of UG in L2 acquisition. This book is essential reading for postgraduates and researchers in language education, linguistics, applied linguistics, speech-language pathology and psychology. The clarification of Chinese as L1 is also of interest to language educators in multilingual contexts.
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Series
Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XI, 76 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
149 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-15-2451-6 (9789811524516)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-2452-3
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Weifeng Han
Universal Grammar and the Initial State of Second Language Learning
Evidence of Chinese Multidialectal Children's Acquisition of English at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
E-Book
01/2020
1st Edition
Springer
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Person
Dr Weifeng Ha
n currently lectures on linguistics and phonetics in speech pathology at Flinders University in South Australia. His teaching and research interests encompass what and how linguistics may contribute to what SLPs need for practice in multilingual and multicultural contexts. He is currently working on a series of projects investigating how the ability to use multiple dialects in the first language may affect the learning of English as a second language among Chinese child learners, and how this will have implications for speech and language diagnosis and assessment. He is an expert on the application of mixed methods in data analysis and discussion.
Content
1 Introduction.- 2 Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition.- 3 Cross-Linguistic Transfer and Second Language Learnability.- 4 Syntax-Semantics Interface and the Form-Meaning Mismatch Between L1 and L2.- 5 Chinese as the L1 in L2 Learning.- 6 Chinese Multidialectal Child Learners' Acquisition of English at the Syntax-Semantics Interface.- 7 Conclusion.