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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 418
• Soggetto topico: Interlanguage (Language learning); Second language acquisition
• Altri autori: RutherfordWilliam E EubankLynn SelinkerLarry <1937-> Sharwood SmithMichael <1942->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The current state of interlanguage
• ISBN: 1-283-09263-8; 90-272-2165-0; 9786613092632; 90-272-8574-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807040003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II