Inquiries in Linguistic Development
In honor of Lydia White
Published on 5. April 2006
Book
Hardback
363 pages
978-90-272-3232-8 (ISBN)
Description
The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions, overview studies, and experimental designs exploring various research questions, such as learnability and access to UG, L1 influence, the nature of initial and endstate grammars, and variability. The linguistic domains investigated are also extremely diverse: morphosyntax, phonology, the lexicon, argument realization, language processing, and interface phenomena. This book, edited and written by McGill University alumni, is intended as a tribute to Lydia White's contribution to the field of generative second language acquisition. The authors present current work on language acquisition which further investigates several themes developed by White's research. Through these state-of-the-art contributions the reader will be able to identify important new directions in which generative language acquisition is developing and expanding.
Reviews / Votes
This volume is unmatched in terms of presenting a wide range of innovative experiments designed to isolate and empirically test specific predictions of linguistic and language acquisition theory among (mainly) adult language learners. The study of formal linguistic analysis and its predictions and implications for acquisition is a hallmark of White's own intellectual approach to SLA research, and that rich legacy is amply reflected in this volume. -- Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30(1), 2008More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3232-8 (9789027232328)
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Roumyana Slabakova | Silvina A. Montrul | Philippe Prévost
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In honor of Lydia White
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Content
1. Inquiries in linguistic development: Studies in honor of Lydia White (by Slabakova, Roumyana); 2. I. Learnability and parameter setting; 3. 'Passive' unaccusative errors in L2 English revisited (by Hirakawa, Makiko); 4. Manner-of-motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 English and Japanese (by Inagaki, Shunji); 5. A semantic parameter with a syntactic trigger in the L2 acquisition of Italian (by Slabakova, Roumyana); 6. Investigating the L2 initial state: Additional evidence from the production and comprehension of Afrikaans-speaking learners of German (by Gruter, Theres); 7. L1 phonotactic knowledge and the L2 acquisition of alternations (by Pater, Joe); 8. II. Variability; 9. Morphological variability in the development of L2 French morphosyntax: The issues of impairment and L1 influence (by Prevost, Philippe); 10. Full transfer vs. partial transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition (by Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid); 11. A representational licensing-based account of asymmetries in the L2 acquisition of place (by Steele, Jeffrey); 12. Processing reduced relative versus main verb ambiguity in English as a Second Language: A replication study with working memory (by Juffs, Alan); 13. Formalism and functionalism working together?: Exploring roles for complementary contributions in the domain of child null arguments (by Allen, Shanley E.M.); 14. III. Incomplete ultimate attainment; 15. L2 acquisition of pragmatic and syntactic constraints in the use of overt and null subject pronouns (by Gurel, Ayse); 16. L2 end state grammars and incomplete acquisition of Spanish CLLD constructions (by Valenzuela, Elena); 17. Knowledge of clitic doubling in Spanish: Evidence against pattern learning (by Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce); 18. Incomplete acquisition as a feature of bilingual and L2 grammars (by Montrul, Silvina A.); 19. Index