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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807040003321

Titolo

The current state of interlanguage : studies in honor of William E. Rutherford / / edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker, Michael Sharwood Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1995

ISBN

1-283-09263-8

90-272-2165-0

9786613092632

90-272-8574-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RutherfordWilliam E

EubankLynn

SelinkerLarry <1937->

Sharwood SmithMichael <1942->

Disciplina

418

Soggetti

Interlanguage (Language learning)

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE CURRENT STATE OF INTERLANGUAGE; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; The current state of interlanguage: Introduction; Prominence in applied linguistics: Bill Rutherford; I-interlanguage and typology: The case of topic-prominence; Universals, SLA, and language pedagogy: 1984 revisited; Learnability, pre-emption, domain-specificity, and the instructional value of ""Master Mind""; Why we need grammar: Confessions of a cognitive generalist; Chasing after linguistic theory: How minimal should we be?; The irrelevance of verbal feedback to language learning

Indirect negative evidence, inductive inferencing, and second language acquisitionThe negative effects of 'positive' evidence on L2 phonology; German plurals in adult second language development: Evidence for a dual-mechanism model of inflection; Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition: Some thoughts on Schachter's Incompleteness Hypothesis; Acquiring linking rules and argument structures in a second language:



The unaccusative/unergative distinction; Data, evidence and rules; Markedness aspects of case-marking in L1 French/L2 English interlanguage; Language transfer: What do we really mean?

Age before beauty: Johnson and Newport revisitedStyle-shifting in oral interlanguage: Quantification and definition; Observations of language use in Spanish immersion classroom interactions; Some neurolinguistic evidence regarding variation in interlanguage use: The status of the 'switch mechanism'; Beyond 2000: A measure of productive lexicon in a second language; A first crosslinguistic look at paths: The difference between end-legs and medial ones; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is re