The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition

The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-0303-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching

Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.
The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2 learners is constrained semantically, syntactically and mnemonically. This hypothesis is formalised as the Multiple Constraints Hypothesis. The empirical test of the Multiple Constraints Hypothesis is based on a large database including cross-sectional and longitudinal data from square-one ESL beginners. The study demonstrates that the postulated constraints are relaxed successively as learning progresses. The book is intended for postgraduate students as well as SLA researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lenzing, Anke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of abbreviations
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Lexical-Functional Grammar
3. Developmental patterns in SLA
4. Processability Theory
5. The role of transfer in SLA
6. The study: Design and data collection
7. Testing the Multiple Constraints Hypothesis : Data analysis and results
8. Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index