TY - BOOK AU - Rast,Rebekah TI - Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing T2 - Second Language Acquisition SN - 9781847690425 AV - P118.2 .R37 2008 U1 - 401/.93 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Polish language KW - Acquisition KW - Second language acquisition KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching KW - bisacsh KW - SLA KW - Second Language Acquisition KW - foreign language input KW - foreign language learning KW - input and learners’ performance KW - input in SLA KW - language input KW - second language learning N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part 1: Theoretical Preliminaries --; Chapter 1. Input and Intake Revisited --; Chapter 2. First Exposure Studies --; Part 2: The Study --; Chapter 3. Polish-French Contrastive Analysis --; Chapter 4. Research Methodology --; Chapter 5. The Adult’s Available Knowledge at First Exposure to an Unknown Language --; Chapter 6. Case Studies: Two Learners with Similar Linguistic Profiles --; Chapter 7. Speech Perception --; Chapter 8. Speech Comprehension --; Chapter 9. Grammatical Analysis --; Chapter 10. Concluding Remarks --; Appendix 1 --; Appendix 2 --; Appendix 3 --; Appendix 4 --; Appendix 5 --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing presents the most comprehensive study to date of the starting point of second language acquisition. Its focus is on the language input that learners receive and what they actually do with this input. The empirical study detailed in the book follows a methodology in which all of the language input provided to the learners from the moment of first exposure is controlled, recorded and transcribed. This input is then quantitatively compared to the learners’ performance on language tasks administered at various time intervals up to 8 hours after first exposure. This in-depth analysis of the input and the learners’ performance sheds light on questions still unanswered in second language acquisition literature, such as what knowledge is brought to the acquisition process and how learners use this knowledge to process new linguistic information UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690432 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847690432 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847690432/original ER -