Research Catalog

Title

Linguistics and second language acquisition / Vivian Cook.

Author

Cook, Vivian, 1940-2021.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.

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Description

x, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Cook's Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (hereafter LASLA) is a welcome addition to the recent spate of second language acquisition (SLA) texts which have flooded the market. It is unique in its focus on linguistics and SLA, and represents the tremendous growth in SLA research within a UG framework that has occurred in recent years. To my knowledge (as with Goodluck (1991) for first language acquisition), LASLA represents the first such text. Chapter 1 begins with a disclaimer of sorts, that is, Cook makes clear that his focus is on linguistics and SLA, not psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, or language teaching. Chapter 2 covers sequences in SLA, and discusses both the morpheme studies and later studies of negation. Chapter 3 examines in detail the theory of Stephen Krashen. Chapter 4 takes up the more prominent social/sociolinguistic approaches to SLA, that is, Acculturation, Pidginization, Creolization, and Variation Theory. In Chapter 5 Cook presents a lucid explanation of Pienemann's rather complex Multidimensional Model/Teachability Hypothesis. Chapter 6 looks at learning and communication strategies. In chapter 7 Much of the important research on SLA and relative clauses is discussed in light of the Keenan-Comrie hierarchy. In chapter 8, the topic turns more to the focus of LASLA by taking up Principles and Parameters syntax. Chapter 9 is the second of two chapters dealing directly with linguistics and SLA, this time covering Universal Grammar (UG) and SLA. The final chapter of LASLA takes up research based on an assumption that runs directly counter to that of generative linguistics, that is, that knowledge of language is not acquired differently than other types of knowledge.

Series Statement

Modern linguistics series

Uniform Title

Modern linguistics series

Subject

• Second language acquisition
• Taalwetenschap
• Tweedetaalverwerving

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The Background to Current Second Language Acquisition Research. 1.1. The Goals of Second Language Research. 1.2. The Scope of this Book. 1.3. Early Second Language Acquisition Research -- Ch. 2. Sequences in Second Language Acquisition. 2.1. Grammatical Morphemes. 2.2. Negation and the Learner's Language System. 2.3. Explanations for Stages of Second Language Acquisition. 2.4. The Concept of Stage. 2.5. Syntactic Aspects of Grammatical Morpheme and Negation Research. 2.6. Observational Data in Second Language Acquisition Research -- Ch. 3. The Input Hypothesis Model. 3.1. The Five Hypotheses. 3.2. Krashen's Evidence for the Input Hypothesis. 3.3. Evidence for the Other Hypotheses. 3.4. Models in Second Language Acquisition Research -- Ch. 4. Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation. 4.1. Pidginisation and Acculturation. 4.2. Creoles and Second Language Acquisition. 4.3. Second Language Acquisition and Variation. 4.4. L2 Use and L2 Learning.
• Ch. 5. The Multidimensional Model and the Teachability Hypothesis. 5.1. Orders of Acquisition in German. 5.2. Extensions to the Original Multidimensional Model Research. 5.3. The Linguistic Basis for the Multidimensional Model. 5.4. The Processing Rationale for the Multidimensional Model. 5.5. Methodological Issues. 5.6. General Implications of Psychological Processing Models -- Ch. 6. Learning and Communication Strategies. 6.1. Learning Strategies. 6.2. Communication and Compensatory Strategies. 6.3. Methodological Issues in Strategies Research. 6.4. Linguistics and Strategies Research -- Ch. 7. Relative Clauses: Beyond Phrase Structure Syntax. 7.1. Relative Clauses and the Accessibility Hierarchy. 7.2. Relative Clauses and Psychological Processing. 7.3. The L2 Acquisition of Relative Clauses and Linguistics. 7.4. Comprehension and Experiments in SLA Research -- Ch. 8. Principles and Parameters Syntax. 8.1. Some Concepts of Principles and Parameters Theory: X-bar Syntax.
• 8.2. The Pro-drop Parameter and the Inflection Phrase. 8.3. Binding Theory. 8.4. The Head-direction Parameter (Principal Branching Direction). 8.5. Syntax and SLA Research -- Ch. 9. The Universal Grammar Model and Second Language Acquisition. 9.1. The Universal Grammar Model of Language Acquisition. 9.2. Access to UG and Subjacency in L2 Learners. 9.3. Access to UG and German Word Order. 9.4. Evidence in UG-related Research and Grammaticality Judgements. 9.5. UG and Multi-competence -- Ch. 10. Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Research. 10.1. Anderson's ACT* Model. 10.2. Temporal Variables. 10.3. Information Processing. 10.4. MacWhinney's Competition Model. 10.5. Plans and Goals. 10.6. Other Features of Cognitive Theories. 10.7. Methodology. 10.8. The Linguistic Background. 10.9. Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.

ISBN

• 0312101007
• 9780312101008
• 0312103557
• 9780312103552
• 0333555333
• 9780333555330

LCCN

93015828

OCLC

• ocm28063573
• 28063573
• SCSB-14486677

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library