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Title The development of second language grammars : a generative approach / edited by Elaine C. Klein, Gita Martohardjono
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 428 pages)
Series Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 18
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 18.
Contents Investigating second language grammars : some conceptual and methodological issues in generative SLA research / Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono -- Common methodological issues in L1 and L2 research / Helen Smith Cairns -- Second language acquisition of the split CP structure / Philippe Prévost -- Activating AgriIOP in second language acquisition / Silvina A. Montrul -- Null subjects in non-native grammars : the Spanish L2 of Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Korean speakers / Juana M. Liceras, Lourdes Díaz and Denyse Maxwell -- Selectivity in the acquisition of complex NP islands / Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Xiaoli Li -- Psych verbs in second language acquisition / Lydia White [and others] -- Just parsing through : notes on the state of L2 processing research today / Elaine C. Klein -- Processing strategies in second language acquisition : some preliminary results / Eva M. Fernández -- Language mixing and second language acquisition : some issues and perspectives / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Codeswitching, grammar, and sentence production : the problem of light verbs / William Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia -- Multiple-specifiers and Wh-island effects in L2 acquisition : a preliminary study / Noriaki Yusa -- Losing the V2 constraint / Daniel Robertson and Antonella Sorace -- Learnability theory : triggers for parsing with / Janet Dean Fodor
Summary This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the development of L2 grammars; others formulate exciting new proposals for methodology and learnability in both first and second language acquisition. Following an introduction which argues for new research strategies that focus on the process of acquisition along with its product, the book is divided into two
Notes Papers presented at GASLA95 which was held May 1995, City University of New York
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Second language acquisition -- Congresses
Generative grammar -- Congresses
Second language acquisition -- Congresses
Generative grammar -- Congresses
Generative grammar
Second language acquisition
Generative Grammatik
Fremdsprachenunterricht
Tweedetaalverwerving.
Grammatica.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Klein, Elaine C.
Martohardjono, Gita, 1956-
GASLA95 (1995 : City University of New York)
ISBN 1556197829
9781556197826
9027224854
9789027224859
9789027299147
9027299145