LINGUIST List 22.4853 Mon Dec 05 2011 Books: Applied Ling/Psycholing: Young-Scholten, Vainikka (Eds) Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Julia Ulrich , The Acquisition of German: Young-Scholten, Vainikka (Eds) Message 1: The Acquisition of German: Young-Scholten, Vainikka (Eds) Date: 05-Dec-2011 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: The Acquisition of German: Young-Scholten, Vainikka (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Acquisition of German Subtitle: Introducing Organic Grammar Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 44 Published: 2011 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110263763-1 Author: Anne Vainikka Author: Martha Young-Scholten Electronic: ISBN: 9783110263843 Pages: 407 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110263763 Pages: 407 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: "The Acquisition of German: Introducing Organic Grammar" brings together work on the acquisition of German from over four decades of child L1 and immigrant L2 learner studies. The book's major feature is new longitudinal data from three secondary school students who began an exchange year in Germany with no German knowledge and attained fluency. Their naturalistic acquisition process - with a succession of stages described for the first time in L2 acquisition - is highly similar to that of younger learners. This has important implications for German teaching and for the theory of Universal Grammar and acquisition. Organic Grammar, a variant of generative syntax, is offered as a practical alternative to Chomsky's Minimalism. The analysis focuses on extensive monthly samples of the three students' German development in an input-rich environment. Similar to previous studies, the teenagers build syntactic structure from the bottom up. Two acquired correct word order by the end of the year, the third, who had greater conscious awareness of German grammar, had a divergent route of development, suggesting that language awareness can alter a natural developmental path. The results are addressed in light of recent debates in child-adult differences. 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