The Lexicon-syntax interface in second language aquisition / edited by Roeland van Hout ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hout, Roeland van.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 30.

Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Lexicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is learnt through a process of implementing a particular set of universal structures, whereas the learning of lexis is characterised by the building up of associations (or connections). Yet these two systems must come together in the creation of a whole linguistic system in the mind of an individual. This book is designed to state the implications of these two paradigms in as clear a way as possible through examples of the research carried out within each paradigm and to examine how they can be made to inter-relate in a way which would enable us to explain better the overall process of SLA.

Contents:

The Lexicon-Syntax Interface in Second Language Aquisition

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

References

Chapter 2. Locating the source of defective past tense marking in advanced L2 English speakers

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 3. Perfect projections

Chapter 4. L1 features in the L2 output

Conclusions

Chapter 5. Measures of competent gradience

Chapter 6. Lexical storage and retrieval in bilinguals

General conclusions

Note

Chapter 7. Inducing abstract linguistic representations

Chapter 8. Neural substrates of representation and processing of a second language

Chapter 9. Neural basis of lexicon and grammar in L2 acquisition

Chapter 10. The interface

Name index

Subject index

The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161186

9781282161184

1282161180

9789027296450

9027296456