Date: 16-Aug-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Garcia Mayo, Hawkins (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Second Language Acquisition of Articles
Subtitle: Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Series Title: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 49
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo
Editor: Roger Hawkins
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289117 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289117 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027253101 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027253101 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Abstract:
The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese, Russian do not). Languages that have articles also appear to divide into those that realise definiteness (e.g. English) and those that realise specificity (e.g. Samoan). When speakers of one type of language learn an L2 of a different type, issues of central concern to SLA research arise: the nature of L1 influence, the time course of development, ultimate attainment, the relationship between performance and competence, and the role of Universal Grammar. These issues are considered in nine studies, written by researchers whose work is at the forefront of enquiry, that offer new data, new perspectives and new insights into the way L2 speakers acquire articles.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Syntax
linguistlist.org>
E-mail this message to a friend
