Leung Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84769-132-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 37, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number of different geographical locations, such as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and the USA. This volume will appeal to those studying L3 acquisition from a variety of theoretical perspectives and should encourage scholarly exchange between the fields of bi-/multilingualism and SLA.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introductory Chapter: Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar - Yan-kit Ingrid Leung

Chapter 1: The Acquisition of Spanish Middle and Impersonal Passive Constructions from SLA and TLA Perspectives - Patricia Bayona

Chapter 2: Language Transfer in the Acquisition of the Semantic Contrast in L3 Spanish - Diana Hsien-Jen Chin

Chapter 3: Multilingual Universal Grammar as the Norm - Vivian Cook

Chapter 4: UG and L3 Acquisition: New Insights and More Questions - Suzanne Flynn

Chapter 5: Transfer in L3 Acquisition: The Role of Typology - Rebecca Foote

Chapter 6: L3 Enhanced Feature Sensitivity as a Result of Higher Proficiency in the L2 - Carol Jaensch

Chapter 7: Third Language Acquisition of Norwegian Objects: Interlanguage Transfer or L1 Influence? - Fufen Jin

Chapter 8: Null Objects in L1 Thai-L2 English-L3 Chinese: An Empiricist’s Take on a Theoretical Problem - Sirirat Na Ranong and Yan-kit Ingrid Leung

Chapter 9: The L3 Acquisition of Cantonese Reflexives - Wai lan Tsang

Über Autor(innen)

Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid
Yan-kit Ingrid Leung received her PhD in linguistics from McGill University in Canada. She has taught at the linguistic departments at the University of Southern California, USA and the University of Essex, UK. She is interested in second and especially third language acquisition, as well as bilingualism/multilingualism. Her research has focused on East Asian and Southeast Asian learners. She is currently affiliated with the University of Hong Kong.