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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961877103321

Titolo

Point counterpoint : universal grammar in the second language / / edited by Lynn Eubank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub Co., 1991

ISBN

1-283-28025-6

9786613280251

90-272-8179-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Language acquisition & language disorders, , 0925-0123 ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

EubankLynn

Disciplina

401/.93

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Language acquisition

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

POINT COUNTERPOINT UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction: Universal Grammar in the Second Language; Seven Trivia of Language Acquisition; Seven Not-So-Trivial Triviaof Language Acquisition: Comments on Wolfgang Klein; Issuesin the Accessibility Debate: A Reply to Felix; Age-Dependent Effects in Language Acquisition: An Evaluation of ""Critical Period"" Hypotheses; On the Notion of ""Critical Period""in UG/L2 Theory: A Response to Flynn and Manuel

Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing StrategiesProcessing, Constraints on Acquisition, and the Parsing of Ungrammatical Sentences; Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition; Transfer or Universal Grammar: Reply to Jordens; Principles of Universal Grammar and Strategies of Language Use:On some Similarities and Differences between First and Second Language Acquisition; Conceptual and Empirical Evidence: A Response to Meisel; Accessto Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition and the ""Pro-Drop"" Phenomenon: A Response to HillesBinding Parameters in Second Language Acquisition; Do Second



Language Learners Have ""Rogue"" Grammars of Anaphora?; Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child Second Language Acquisition; Evidence,Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan; Abbreviations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 h