Mind Matters in SLA / edited by Clare Wright, Thorsten Piske and Martha Young-Scholten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Clare, 1966- editor.

Piske, Thorsten, editor.

Young-Scholten, Martha, editor.

Series:

Second Language Acquisition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2018.

Summary:

An extensive collection of cutting-edge research on cognitive and psycholinguistics This book examines key issues in theories of what language is and what happens in the mind during second language acquisition. Chapters provide cutting-edge insights and new empirical findings spanning formal and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language development, to understand the role of learner-internal factors in SLA.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

1. Introduction

Part 1: Language and Mind

2. What is Grammar? A Universal Grammar Approach

3. Syntax and Acquisition: The Emergentist Story

4. Poverty of the Stimulus and Language Acquisition: From Ancient Philosophy to Neuroscience

5. Language Evolution and the Nature of the Human Faculty for Language

Part 2: Properties of Interlanguage Grammars

6. The Mystery of the Missing Inflections

7. The Second Language Lexicon

8. Foreign Accent in a Second Language: Individual Differences in Perception

9. A Case of Extreme Phonetic Attrition in the German Rhotic

Part 3: Transitions in Acquisition

10. Using Psycholinguistic Techniques in a Second Language Teaching Setting

11. Research in Memory and Processing in Second Language Acquisition

12. Processability Theory: Architecture and Application

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788921626

OCLC:

1050437299