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Mind Matters in SLA / ed. by Clare Wright, Thorsten Piske, Martha Young-Scholten.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788921619
  • 9781788921626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.93 23
LOC classification:
  • P118.2 .M565 2018eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Language and Mind -- 2. What is Grammar? A Universal Grammar Approach -- 3. Syntax and Acquisition: The Emergentist Story -- 4. Poverty of the Stimulus and Language Acquisition: From Ancient Philosophy to Neuroscience -- 5. Language Evolution and the Nature of the Human Faculty for Language -- Part 2: Properties of Interlanguage Grammars -- 6. The Mystery of the Missing Inflections -- 7. The Second Language Lexicon -- 8. Foreign Accent in a Second Language: Individual Differences in Perception -- 9. A Case of Extreme Phonetic Attrition in the German Rhotic -- Part 3: Transitions in Acquisition -- 10. Using Psycholinguistic Techniques in a Second Language Teaching Setting -- 11. Research in Memory and Processing in Second Language Acquisition -- 12. Processability Theory: Architecture and Application -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary: This book examines key issues in theories of what language is and what happens in the mind during second language acquisition (SLA), inspiring readers to think in new and exciting ways about language learning and teaching. Chapters, written by both established and rising star scholars, provide cutting-edge insights and new empirical findings on major topics of formal and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language development, and offer a coherent, wide-ranging, reader-friendly examination of learner-internal factors in SLA. The first section of the book focuses on issues that are pertinent to our understanding of language acquisition, particularly in relation to syntax. The second section comprises empirical chapters on syntax, the lexicon, phonetics/phonology and language production in English and other languages. These chapters refer to theories and frameworks from within SLA to enable the reader to grasp the key questions and issues that are currently relevant. The final section focuses on research relating to how second language (L2) learners make transitions from one stage of development to the next; it covers state-of-the-art psycholinguistic research concerning how L2 acquisition occurs in real time, and includes discussion of models of L2 development both in and out of the classroom.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Language and Mind -- 2. What is Grammar? A Universal Grammar Approach -- 3. Syntax and Acquisition: The Emergentist Story -- 4. Poverty of the Stimulus and Language Acquisition: From Ancient Philosophy to Neuroscience -- 5. Language Evolution and the Nature of the Human Faculty for Language -- Part 2: Properties of Interlanguage Grammars -- 6. The Mystery of the Missing Inflections -- 7. The Second Language Lexicon -- 8. Foreign Accent in a Second Language: Individual Differences in Perception -- 9. A Case of Extreme Phonetic Attrition in the German Rhotic -- Part 3: Transitions in Acquisition -- 10. Using Psycholinguistic Techniques in a Second Language Teaching Setting -- 11. Research in Memory and Processing in Second Language Acquisition -- 12. Processability Theory: Architecture and Application -- Glossary -- References -- Index

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This book examines key issues in theories of what language is and what happens in the mind during second language acquisition (SLA), inspiring readers to think in new and exciting ways about language learning and teaching. Chapters, written by both established and rising star scholars, provide cutting-edge insights and new empirical findings on major topics of formal and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language development, and offer a coherent, wide-ranging, reader-friendly examination of learner-internal factors in SLA. The first section of the book focuses on issues that are pertinent to our understanding of language acquisition, particularly in relation to syntax. The second section comprises empirical chapters on syntax, the lexicon, phonetics/phonology and language production in English and other languages. These chapters refer to theories and frameworks from within SLA to enable the reader to grasp the key questions and issues that are currently relevant. The final section focuses on research relating to how second language (L2) learners make transitions from one stage of development to the next; it covers state-of-the-art psycholinguistic research concerning how L2 acquisition occurs in real time, and includes discussion of models of L2 development both in and out of the classroom.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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