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1 online resource (ix, 439 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Language acquisition & language disorders,
0925-0123 ;
v. 3
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Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 3.
0925-0123
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : universal grammar in the second language / Lynn Eubank -- Seven trivia of language acquisition / Wolfgang Klein -- Seven not-so-trivial trivia of language acquisition : comments on Wolfgang Klein / Nina Hyams -- The accessibility of universal grammar in second language acquisition / Sascha Felix -- Issues in the accessibility debate : a reply to Felix / Jacquelyn Schachter -- Age-dependent effects in language acquisition : an evaluation of "critical period" hypotheses / Suzanne Flynn and Sharon Manuel -- On the notion of "critical period" in UG/L2 theory : a response to Flynn and Manuel / David Birdsong -- Second language competence versus second language performance : UG or processing strategies? / Lydia White -- Processing, constraints on acquisition, and the parsing of ungrammatical sentences / Robert Bley-Vroman -- Linguistic knowledge in second language acquisition / Peter Jordens. |
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Transfer or universal grammar : reply to Jordens / Lynn Eubank -- Principles of universal grammar and strategies of language learning : some similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition / Jürgen M. Meisel -- Conceptual and empirical evidence : a response to Meisel / Bonnie Schwartz -- Access to universal grammar in second language acquisition / Sharon Hilles -- Language acquisition and the "pro-drop" phenomenon : a response to Hilles / William O'Grady -- Binding parameters in second language acquisition / Daniel L. Finer -- Do second language learners have "rogue" grammars of anaphora? / Margaret Thomas -- Morphological uniformity and null subjects in child second language acquisition / Usha Lakshmanan -- Evidence, analogy and passive knowledge : comments on Lakshmanan / Nina Hyams, Ken Safir. |
| Summary |
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion 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 perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold con. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Language acquisition.
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Language acquisition. |
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Second language acquisition.
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Second language acquisition. |
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Electronic books.
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Eubank, Lynn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Point counterpoint. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub Co., 1991 9789027224644 (DLC) 91016723 (OCoLC)23650319 |
| ISBN |
9789027281791 (electronic book) |
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9027281793 (electronic book) |
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1556192363 |
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9781556192364 |
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