Research Catalog

Title

Linguistic theory in second language acquisition / edited by Suzanne Flynn and Wayne O'Neil.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

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Additional Authors

• Flynn, Suzanne.
• O'Neil, Wayne A.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Description

xiii, 443 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics

Uniform Title

Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics.

Subject

• Second language acquisition
• Grammar, Comparative and general
• Gramática comparada y general
• Langue seconde > Acquisition
• Grammaire comparée et générale
• Tweedetaalverwerving
• Language acquisition

Note

• Papers from a conference held Oct. 25-27, 1985, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / S. Flynn and W. O'Neil -- Linguistic theory : generative grammar / K. Hale -- The ontogenesis of the field of second language learning research / F. Newmeyer and S. Weinberger -- Parameterized grammatical theory and language acquisition : a study of the acquisition of verb placement and inflection by children and adults / H. Clahsen -- Nature of development in L2 acquisition and implications for theories of language acquisition in general / S. Flynn -- Linguistic theory, neurolinguistics and second language acquisition / L. Travis -- Second language acquisition : a biolinguistic perspective / L. Jenkins -- Neurolinguistics and parameter setting / L. Obler -- The acquisition of infinitive and gerund complements by second language learners / I. Mazurkewich.
• Island effects in second language acquisition / L. White -- On the role of linguistic theory in explanations of second language developmental grammars / M. Sharwood Smith -- L2 learnability : delimiting the domain of core grammar as distinct from the marked periphery / J. Liceras -- Kinds of markedness / J.W. Gair -- The categorial status of modals and L2 acquisition / L. Haegeman -- UG-generated knowledge in adult second language acquisition / S. Felix -- Prosodic phonology and the acquisition of a second language / E. Broselow -- Universal grammar in second language acquisition : promises and problems in critically relating theory and empirical studies / B. Lust -- Pidginization as language acquisition / D. Macedo and F. D'Introno.
• All paths lead to the mental lexicon / J. Aitchison -- Intermorphology and morphological theory : a plea for a concession / R. Singh and G. Martohardjono -- Second language acquisition and linguistic theory : the role of language transfer / S. Gass -- Grammatical theory and L2 acquisition : a brief overview / W. Rutherford -- Typological and parametric views of universals in second language acquisition / F. Eckman.

ISBN

• 1556080840
• 9781556080845
• 1556080859
• 9781556080852

LCCN

88021811

OCLC

• ocm18191065
• 18191065
• SCSB-1735632

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library