
Representational Deficits in SLA
Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 14. January 2009
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-90-272-5308-8 (ISBN)
Description
The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of "representational deficits" in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been devoted to explaining lack of native-like success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are representational deficits in the post-critical-period L2 learners' grammar. The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is that they provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L2 learner under investigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5308-8 (9789027253088)
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Neal Snape | Yan-kit Ingrid Leung | Michael Sharwood Smith
Representational Deficits in SLA
Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins
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Gunma Prefectural Women's University
University of Hong Kong
Heriot-Watt University
Content
1. Dedication; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Introduction (by Snape, Neal); 5. Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage (by Goad, Heather); 6. Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use (by Snape, Neal); 7. Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach (by Vainikka, Anne); 8. Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language: Evidence from wh-words used as universal quantifiers in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Chinese (by Yuan, Boping); 9. Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-speaking learners (by Lin, Jiang); 10. Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus (by Lozano, Cristobal); 11. Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in Spanish and Greek L2 grammars (by Parodi, Teresa); 12. Aspect and the Interpretation of Motion Verbs in L2 Greek (by Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria); 13. Associating meaning to form in advanced L2 speakers: An investigation into the acquisition of the English present simple and present progressive (by Liszka, Sarah Ann); 14. Name index; 15. Subject index