LINGUIST List 17.285

Fri Jan 27 2006

Books: Lang Acquisition/Ling Theories: Franceschina

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Directory         1.    Paul Peranteau, Fossilized Second Language Grammars: Franceschina
Message 1: Fossilized Second Language Grammars: Franceschina
Date: 26-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Fossilized Second Language Grammars: Franceschina


Title: Fossilized Second Language Grammars Subtitle: The acquisition of grammatical gender Series Title: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 38 Published: 2005 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LALD%2038

Author: Florencia Franceschina, Lancaster University Hardback: ISBN: 902725298X Pages: xxiv, 288 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902725298X Pages: xxiv, 288 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Abstract:

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into themechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second languageacquisition. Couched within a generative framework, the study explores howa learner's first language and the age at which they acquire their secondlanguage may contribute to the L2 knowledge that they can ultimatelyattain. The empirical study focuses on a group of very advanced L2speakers, and through a series of tests aims to discover what underpinstheir near mastery of grammatical gender and other grammaticalproperties.The book explores an account of persistent selective divergencebased on the idea that child and adult learners are fundamentally similar,except that in adults the L1 plays the role of a fairly rigid filter of thelinguistic input. The impossibility of representing the new target languageother than by using the building blocks of the previously established L1 isargued to be the main reason why near but not totally native like languagerepresentations are formed and become established in adult L2 learners.

Table of contents

Abstract ixAcknowledgements xiList of appendices xiiiList of tables xv-xviiList of figures xix-xxiAbbreviations xxiii-xxivIntroduction 1-8Definitions, assumptions and predictions 9-41Competing theories of NS/NNS ultimate attainment differences 43-67Gender 69-120The empirical study 121-190Discussion 191-205Notes 207-214References 215-240Appendices 241-281Name index 283-286Subject index 287-288

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Linguistic Theories
Written In: English (eng )

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