Research Catalog

Title

The acquisition of temporality in a second language / Rainer Dietrich, Wolfgang Klein, Colette Noyau, in cooperation with Josée Coenen ... [et al.].

Author

Dietrich, Rainer

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1995.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Klein, Wolfgang, 1946 February 3-
• Klein, Wolfgang, 1946-
• Noyau, Colette.

Description

xii, 288 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This study is part of a larger project organised under the auspices of the European Science Foundation (ESF) in which the second language acquisition of adult immigrants was investigated longitudinally and cross-linguistically in five European countries. The aims, scope and layout of the project as a whole are described in detail in chapter 1.2. The concept of time has been investigated by scholars of many disciplines, from psychology to physics. Why one should look at temporality through the severely restricted instrument of a beginner's second language, however, deserves some explanation. We briefly consider three areas of research for which empirically based insights into the organisation of temporality in early learner languages might be relevant or of interest.

Series Statement

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 7.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions
• Second language acquisition

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- Introduction -- Rainer Dietrich and Clive Perdue -- Aims of the analysis -- The ESF Project: Second language acquisition by adult immigrants -- Motivation, time schedule and organisation -- Design -- Previous work on the acquisition of temporality -- Data base -- Informants -- The data -- Procedure of data analysis -- Frame of analysis -- Wolfgang Klein -- The infiexional paradigm bias -- Linguistic meaning proper and contextual information -- Temporal relations and inherent temporal features -- Tense and aspect -- Temporal adverbials -- Discourse organisation and the "principle of natural order (PNO )" -- Summary -- The acquisition of English -- Wolfgang Klein -- Introduction -- Informants and data -- Some notes on temporality in English, Italian and Punjabi -- From Italian to English -- The Basic Variety -- Further development -- Summary of Italian learners -- From Punjabi to English -- Madan -- Ravinder -- Summary of TL-English -- -- The acquisition of German --^
• Rainer Dietrich -- Introduction -- Presentation of the chapter -- Informants and data -- Some notes on temporality in German and Turkish -- From Italian to German -- The Basic Variety -- Further development -- Summary -- An explanatory hypothesis -- From Turkish to German -- Data and informants -- Survey of development -- The Post-Basic Variety -- The Perfekt and first instances of the Präteritum -- Präteritum, Plusquamperfekt, and the Futur I -- From a homogeneous standard to the differentiation of registers -- General lines of development -- Summary of TL-German -- The acquisition of Dutch 11 7 -- Wolfgang Klein, Josée Coenen, Korrie van Helvert and Henriëtte Hendriks -- Introduction Data -- Some notes on temporality in Dutch and Moroccan Arabic -- From Turkish to Dutch -- Ergün -- Mahmut -- Summary of Turkish learners -- From Moroccan Arabic to Dutch -- Mohamed -- Fatima -- Summary of Moroccan learners -- Summary of TL-Dutch -- The acquisition of French --^
• Collette Noyau, Et-Tayeb Houdaifa, Marie-Therese Vasseur and Daniel Veronique -- Introduction -- Presentation of the chapter -- Notes on temporality in French -- Notes on temporality in Spanish as the source language of South American Learners -- The learners -- From Arabic to French -- A slow learner: Zahra -- Development beyond the elementary stages: Abdelmalek -- Summary of Moroccan learners -- From Spanish to French -- The learners -- A slow learner: Berta -- Development beyond the Basic Variety -- Summary of Spanish-speaking learners -- Summary of TL-French -- The acquisition of Swedish -- Colette Noyau, Beatriz Dorriots, Soren Sjostrom and Kaarlo Voionmaa -- Introduction -- Presentation of the chapter -- Notes on temporality in Swedish -- Some notes on temporality in Finnish -- The informants -- From Spanish to Swedish -- A slow learner: Nora -- A faster learner: Fernando -- Summary of Spanish-speaking learners -- From Finnish to Swedish -- A slow learner: Rauni --^
• A faster learner: Mari -- Summary of Finnish learners -- Summary of TL-Swedish -- Conclusions -- Wolfgang Klein, Rainer Dietrich and Colette Noyau -- Introduction -- Similarities and differences -- The overall structure of the acquisition process -- Stage A: Pre-Basic Varieties -- Stage B: The Basic Variety -- Stage C: Development beyond the Basic variety -- Causal considerations -- Temporal expressions: what after what? -- Final causal considerations -- Author index -- Subject index --

ISBN

• 9027241090 (Eur. : alk. paper)
• 1556195370 (US : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95024437^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library