LINGUIST List 5.652

Mon 06 Jun 1994

Books: Lang acquisition

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    CHILD LANG ACQUISITION Berman, Ruth A., & Slobin, Dan I. RELATING EVENTS IN NARRATIVE: A CROSSLINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY Lawrence Erlbaum Associates US $45 prepaid (cloth) ISBN 0-8058-1435-3 xiv, 748 pp. The authors, with collaborators from several countries, explore uses of linguistic forms in narrative, in both a developmental and crosslinguistic framework. Contributors are psychologists and linguists, taking a functional typo- logical approach. The study is based on a large crosslinguistic corpus of narratives, all elicited by the same picture storybook, in English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Turkish, from preschool and school-age children, as well as adults. The findings deal with both universal and language-specific patterns of development, suggesting a new approach to questions of language and thought. LANG ACQUISITION Gass, Susan & Larry Selinker (eds.) LANGUAGE TRANSFER IN LANGUAGE LEARNING (rev. ed.) (new pb ed.) LANG ACQUISITION John Benjamins 1994 x, 236 pp. Cloth US: 1 55169 240 1/EUR: 90 272 2468 4 US$49.00/Hfl. 95,-- Paper US: 1 55619 248 7/EUR: 90 272 2476 5 US$24.95/Hfl. 50,-- The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This volume traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. For the present book the 1983 edition has been thoroughly revised, and some papers have been replaced, some added. Contributors: S. Gass, L. Selinker, S. Pit Corder, J. Schachter, J. Ard, T. Homburg, E. Broselow, J.K. Gundel, E.F. Tarone, H.G. Bartelt, R.C. Scarcella, P. Jordens, H. Zobi, U. Lakshmanan, L. White.
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