Paths of development in L1 and L2 acquisition : in honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz / edited by Sharon Unsworth ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Bonnie D.

Unsworth, Sharon.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 39.

Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

viii, 222 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language acquisition: How do learners move from one developmental stage to another and how and why do grammars develop in a certain fashion? Building on considerable previous research, the authors address both general and specific issues related to paths of development. These issues are tackled through considering studies of L1 and L2 children and L2 adults learning a range of languages including Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and Japanese.

Contents:

Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

1. Issues in addressing the developmental problem

2. Paths of development in child L1, child L2 and adult L2 acquisition

3. The papers in this volume

4. Summary and dedication

References

The acquisition of voice and transitivity alternations in Greek as native and second language

1. Introduction

2. Voice distinctions and transitivity alternations in Greek

2.1. The syntax of Voice

3. Voice morphology and transitivity alternations in Turkish

4. The study

4.1. Subjects

4.2. Description of the tasks

4.3. Research questions

5. Results: Sentence-picture matching task

5.1. 'Inherent' reflexives

5.2. Anti-causative verbs with non-active morphology and animate subjects

5.3. Anticausative verbs with active morphology and inanimate subject

5.4. Summary of results from the SPM task

5.5. Results: Elicited production task

6. Discussion

7. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Notes

Appendix

Do Root Infinitives ever have an overt subject in child French?*

2. The French data

3. Initial considerations: Null subjects and Root Infinitives

4. Background and assumptions

5. Apparent heavy subjects of Root Infinitives

5.1. Prosodic characteristics

5.2. Information structure characteristics

5.3. Discussion

6. Apparent clitic subjects of Root Infinitives

7. Conclusion

The roots of syntax and how they grow

2. Sowing the seeds

2.1. The Basic Variety

2.2. Does the Basic Variety hold up under scrutiny?

2.3. If not the Basic Variety, which seeds are sown?

2.4. Minimal Trees, Structure Building and Organic Grammar.

2.5. Organic Grammar vs. the Basic Variety

3. How does your garden grow?

3.1. Processability Theory

3.2. An Alternative to Processability

4. Conclusion

Neuter gender and interface vulnerability in child L2/2L1 Dutch

1. The acquisition of grammatical gender of definite determiners in Dutch

1.1. Gender morphology on definite determiners in Dutch

1.2. The acquisition of gender morphology on definite articles by (monolingual) Dutch children

2. Experimental data from Hulk &amp

Cornips (2005)

2.1. Methodology and subjects

2.2. Experimental results regarding the grammatical gender on the definite determiners

Correct use of het

Overgeneralization of the non-neuter definite determiner de

Decrease in the use of bare nouns

Summarising

3. Differences between mono- and bilingual children: Cross-linguistic influence or deficient input?

3.1. Cross-linguistic influence

3.2. The role of the input in the acquisition of neuter gender nouns

4. Linguistic analysis

4.1. Morphological variability of the definite determiner

4.2. The production of relative pronouns in Dutch

5. Concluding remarks

The development of PATHS

2. Experimental methodology

2.1. Original experimental goals

2.2. Elicitation materials and procedure

2.3. Test subjects and settings

3. Results for THROUGH and ACROSS: The splitting of complex trajectories

4. Lexical semantic complexity and delays in acquisition

4.1. The semantic feature hypothesis revisited

4.2. The semantic features hypothesis revived

5. Toward a non-linguistic solution: Complexity in the spatial representations of trajectories

5.1. Uniform linguistic complexity

5.2. Spatial representations and directional predication

6. Conclusion

Acknowledgements.

Notes

More evidence on the knowledge of unaccusativity in L2 Japanese

2. Theoretical background

2.1. The Unaccusative Hypothesis

2.2. Deep versus Surface Unaccusativity in Japanese

3. Previous studies

4. Experimental study

4.1. Hypotheses

4.2. Subjects

4.3. Task and materials

4.4. Group results

4.5. Individual results

5. Discussion and conclusion

What transfers?

2. A brief historical perspective of L1 transfer

3. Language assumptions and L1 transfer

4. The modular transfer approach of Montrul

5. What transfers

Full Transfer Full Access

2. Full Transfer Full Access

2.1. Understanding transfer

2.2. Understanding access

2.3. Understanding transition

3. FTFA meets MOGUL

3.1. MOGUL architecture

3.2. Activation and competition

3.3. Full transfer, full access, and transition - revisited

Name index

Subject index

The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156007

9781282156005

1282156004

9789027293701

9027293708

OCLC:

191935575