Interfaces in Multilingualism
Acquisition and representation
Published on 10. March 2006
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-90-272-1924-4 (ISBN)
Description
Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical components that forms the main topic of this volume, discussed from the perspective of bilingual L1 acquisition in early childhood and L2 in adulthood, as well as L1/L2 in late childhood. The book contains ten contributions by members of the Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg and by other international scholars, all of them experts on multilingualism. Several pairs of languages are dealt with, among them Spanish and German, Mandarin and English, French and German, Italian and German, Turkish and English, Turkish and German, Dutch and Turkish, as well as Spoken German and German Sign language. Throughout the volume the central issue is that of representation at the interface of grammatical components.
Reviews / Votes
All of the chapters in this volume are well written and provide clear and abundant examples, charts, and even illustrations to convey important information [...] The authors of these chapters do an outstanding job of reminding researchers that interface research is invaluable for truly understanding all aspects of linguistic theory, and I commend the authors for successfully intertwining areas of linguistics that are usually treated in isolation. -- Amy Thompson, Michigan State University, in Studies in Second Language Acquistion 30(1), 2008More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
665 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1924-4 (9789027219244)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
03/2006
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
€93.49
Available for download
Person
Content
1. Forward (by Lleo, Conxita); 2. The prosody of early two-word utterances by German and Spanish monolingual and bilingual children (by Lleo, Conxita); 3. Fundamental frequency in Mandarin and English: Comparing first- and second-language speakers (by Visceglia, Tanya); 4. The development of forms and functions in the acquisition of tense and aspect in German-French bilingual children (by Rieckborn, Susanne); 5. The acquisition of V2 and subordinate clauses in early successive acquisition of German (by Rothweiler, Monika); 6. Between 2L1- and child L2 acquisition: An experimental study of bilingual Dutch (by Hulk, Aafke); 7. The emergence of article forms and functions in the language acquisition of a German-Italian bilingual child (by Kupisch, Tanja); 8. Persistent problems with case morphology in L2 acquisition (by Haznedar, Belma); 9. Personal reference in Japanese (by Felix, Sascha); 10. Sign languages: Representation, processing, and interface conditions (by Leuninger, Helen); 11. Limits to modularity: The 'insertion' of complex 'lexical' constructions in codeswitching (by Backus, Ad); 12. Index