Snape / Leung / Sharwood Smith Representational Deficits in SLA

Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8999-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 47, 278 Seiten

Reihe: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been devoted to explaining lack of native-like success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are representational deficits in the post-critical-period L2 learners’ grammar. The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is that they provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L2 learner under investigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snape, Neal

Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid

Sharwood Smith, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Mike Sharwood Smith
Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage
Heather Goad and Lydia White
Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use
Neal Snape
Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach
Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten
Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language: Evidence from wh-words used as universal quantifiers in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Chinese
Boping Yuan
Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-speaking learners
Lin Jiang
Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus
Cristóbal Lozano
Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in Spanish and Greek L2 grammars
Teresa Parodi
Aspect and the Interpretation of Motion Verbs in L2 Greek
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli and Despina Papadopoulou
Associating meaning to form in advanced L2 speakers: An investigation into the acquisition of the English present simple and present progressive
Sarah Ann Liszka
Name index
Subject index