Typology and Second Language Acquisition

Typology and Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Anna Giacalone Ramat
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 9783110173598
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 470

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.


Typology and Second Language Acquisition

Typology and Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Anna Giacalone Ramat
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110891247
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 461

In recent years research on comparative typology has led to reveal regularities and to formulate new constraints upon variation for a broad range of phenomena. As the amount of typological research increased, a growing interest arose for the implications that findings in the typological field might have on second language acquisition. Written by experts in the field of typology and/or second language acquisition, this volume addresses theoretical and empirical issues on structural domains such as relative clauses and possessive constructions as well as pragmatic considerations on information organization in learners productions.


Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: William E. Rutherford
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027228698
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important cross-fertilization between research in grammatical theory and in second language acquisition. Topics dealt with in a number of the papers include word order, markedness, core grammar, accessability hierarchies, and simplified registers. The range of universals discussed embraces phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Universals are also considered with reference to ontology, psychological reality, and evaluation metrics.


Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories

Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories

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  • Author: Thom Huebner
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027224633
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 444

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from theory to application, equally important contributions can be made in the other direction as well. Second, although there is a strong tendency in the field of linguistics to see “theorists” working within formal models of syntax, SLA research can contribute to linguistic theory more broadly defined to include various functional as well as formal models of syntax, theories of phonology, variationist theories of sociolinguists, etc. These assumptions formed the basis for a conference held at Stanford University during the Linguistic Institute there in the summer of 1987. The conference was organized to update the relation between second language acquisition and linguistic theory. This book contains a selection of (mostly revised and updated) papers of this conference and two newly written papers.


Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3

Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3

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  • Author: Timothy Shopen
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521318990
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 444

The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.


Introducing Language Typology

Introducing Language Typology

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  • Author: Edith A. Moravcsik
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521193400
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 323

This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.


Arabic Second Language Learning and Effects of Input, Transfer, and Typology

Arabic Second Language Learning and Effects of Input, Transfer, and Typology

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  • Author: Mohammad T. Alhawary
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN: 162616648X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

Despite the status of Arabic as a global language and the high demand to learn it, the field of Arabic second language acquisition remains underinvestigated. Second language acquisition findings are crucial for informing and advancing the field of Arabic foreign language pedagogy including Arabic language teaching, testing, and syllabus design. Arabic Second Language Learning and Effects of Input, Transfer, and Typology provides data-driven empirical findings for a number of basic and high-frequency morphosyntactic structures with two novel typological language pairings, examining Arabic second language acquisition data from adult L1 Chinese- and Russian-speaking learners of Arabic as a foreign language. Alhawary’s study examines the different processes, hypotheses, and acquisition tendencies from the two learner groups, and documents the extent of the successes and challenges faced by such learners in their L2 Arabic grammatical development during the first three years of learning the language. In addition, the book offers both theoretical and practical implications related to input exposure, L1 and L2 transfer, and typological and structural proximity effects. This book serves as a valuable resource for both second language acquisition experts and foreign language teaching practitioners.


Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

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  • Author: Bernard Comrie
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226114330
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Introducing Second Language Acquisition

Introducing Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Muriel Saville-Troike
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107010896
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

A clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition, written for students encountering the topic for the first time.


Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions

Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions

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  • Author: Timothy Shopen
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521318983
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

Volume 2 of a survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the world's languages.