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Third language acquisition and universal grammar / edited by Yan-kit Ingrid Leung.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England)
- Second language acquisition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generative grammar.
- Language acquisition.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number of different geographical locations, such as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and the USA. This volume will appeal to those studying L3 acquisition from a variety of theoretical perspectives and should encourage scholarly exchange between the fields of bi-/multilingualism and SLA.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Acquisition of Spanish Middle and Impersonal Passive Constructions from SLA and TLA Perspectives
- Chapter 2. Language Transfer in the Acquisition of the Semantic Contrast in L3 Spanish
- Chapter 3. Multilingual Universal Grammar as the Norm
- Chapter 4. UG and L3 Acquisition: New Insights and More Questions
- Chapter 5. Transfer in L3 Acquisition: The Role of Typology
- Chapter 6. L3 Enhanced Feature Sensitivity as a Result of Higher Profi ciency in the L2
- Chapter 7. Third Language Acquisition of Norwegian Objects: Interlanguage Transfer or L1 Infl uence?
- Chapter 8. Null Objects in L1 Thai–L2 English–L3 Chinese: An Empiricist Take on a Theoretical Problem
- Chapter 9. The L3 Acquisition of Cantonese Refl exives
- Appendix
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786611973469
- 9781788920667
- 178892066X
- 9781281973467
- 1281973467
- 9781847691323
- 1847691323
- OCLC:
- 437087257
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