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Mon Feb 06 2006

Books: Psycholing/Typology: Pienemann

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Directory         1.    Paul Peranteau, Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory: Pienemann
Message 1: Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory: Pienemann
Date: 27-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory: Pienemann


Title: Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory Series Title: Studies in Bilingualism 30 Published: 2006 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiBil%2030

Editor: Manfred Pienemann, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Hardback: ISBN: 9027241414 Pages: xiv, 303 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027241414 Pages: xiv, 303 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Abstract:

Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theoryof language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examinesthe typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic,Chinese, and Japanese, the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to makedetailed and verifiable predictions about the developmental schedule foreach language. This cross-linguistic perspective is also applied to thestudy of L1 transfer by comparing the impact of processability andtypological proximity. The typological perspective is extended by includinga comparison of different types of language acquisition. The architectureof PT is expanded by the addition of a second set of principles thatcontributes to the formal modeling of levels of processability, namely themapping of argument-structure onto functional structure in lexical mappingtheory. This step yields the inclusion of a range of additional phenomenain the processability hierarchy thus widening the scope of PT.

Table of contents

Abbreviations viiPreface ix-xiii

1. An introduction to Processability TheoryManfred Pienemann 1-60

2. Discussing PTManfred Pienemann 61-83

3. Processability, typological distance and L1 transferManfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase, Satomi Kawaguchi and Gisela Håkansson85-116

4. Agreement morphology in Arabic as a second language: Typologicalfeatures and their processing implicationsFethi Mansouri 117-153

5. Processing and formal instruction in the L2 acquisition of five Chinesegrammatical morphemesYanyin Zhang 155-177

6. Similarities and differences in L1 and L2 development. Opening up theperspective: including SLIGisela Håkansson 179-197

7. Extending Processability TheoryManfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase and Satomi Kawaguchi 199-251

8. Argument structure and syntactic development in Japanese as a secondlanguageSatomi Kawaguchi 253-298

Subject index 299-303

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Linguistic Theories                             Psycholinguistics                             Typology
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)                             Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)                             Japanese (jpn)
Written In: English (eng )

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