Input and evidence : the raw material of second language acquisition / Susanne E. Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Susanne.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 25.

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Linguistic models.

Physical Description:

xviii, 461 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Input and Evidence: the raw material of second language acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback, repetitions, reformulations) play a role in language acquisition in addition to that played by ordinary conversation. At the same time, it embeds discussion of input within a framework which includes a serious treatment of language processing, including the problem of modularity and the question of how semantic representations can influence grammatical ones. It lays the foundation for the development of a truly explanatory theory of SLA in the form of the Autonomous Induction Theory which combines a model of induction with an interpretation of Universal Grammar, thereby permitting, for the the first time, a coherent approach to the problem of constraining induction in SLA.

Contents:

INPUT AND EVIDENCE

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Questions, problems, and definitions

Chapter 2 Property and transition theories

Chapter 3 The representational and developmental problems of language acquisition

Chapter 4 The autonomous induction model

Chapter 5 Constraints on i-learning

Chapter 6 The logical problem of (second) language acquisition revisited

Chapter 7 Input and the Modularity Hypothesis

Chapter 8 The evidence for negative evidence

Chapter 9 Feedback in the Autonomous Induction Theory

Chapter 10 The interpretation of verbal feedback

Epilogue

Appendix 1 Acceptability judgement task

Appendix 2 Experimentalsession

References

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-448) and index.

ISBN:

9786612254642

9781282254640

1282254642

9789027298218

9027298211

9780585462462

0585462461

OCLC:

179085730