Overview

This volume offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, held at UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of universal grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussions of other fundamental questions, viz the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perpectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view.

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Author:   Lynn Eubank (University of North Texas)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9789027224675

ISBN 10:   9027224676
Pages:   439
Publication Date:   09 August 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Universal Grammar in the Second Language (by Eubank, Lynn); 2. Seven Trivia of Language Acquisition (by Klein, Wolfgang); 3. Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion: Comments on Wolfgang Klein (by Hyams, Nina); 4. The Accessibility of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition (by Felix, Sascha); 5. Issues in the Accessibility Debate: A Reply to felix (by Schachter, Jacquelyn); 6. Age-dependent Effects in Language Acquuisition: An Evaluation of Critical Period Hypotheses (by Flynn, Suzanne); 7. On the Notion of Critical Period in UG/L2 Theory: A Response to Flynn and Manuel (by Birdsong, David); 8. Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies? (by White, Lydia); 9. Processing, Contraints on Acquisition, and the Parsing of Ungrammatical Sentences (by Bley-Vroman, Robert); 10. Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition (by Jordens, Peter); 11. Transfer or Universal Grammar: Reply to Jordens (by Eubank, Lynn); 12. Principles of Universal Grammar and Strategies of Language Learning: Some Similarities and Differencies between First and Second Language Acquisition (by Meisel, Jurgen M.); 13. Conceptual and Empirical Evidence: A Response to Meisel (by Schwartz, Bonnie D.); 14. Access to Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition (by Hilles, Sharon); 15. Language Acquisition and the Pro-Drop Phenomenon: A response to Hilles (by O'Grady, William); 16. Binding Parameters in Second Language Acquisition (by Finer, Daniel L.); 17. Do Second Language Learners Have Rogue Grammars of Anaphora? (by Thomas, Margaret); 18. Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child Second Language Acquisition (by Lakshmanan, Usha); 19. Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan (by Hyams, Nina); 20. Abbreviations; 21. Index

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