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Toward Second Language Acquisition - A Study of Null-Prep (Hardcover, 1993 ed.) Loot Price: R2,815
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Toward Second Language Acquisition - A Study of Null-Prep (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): E. C. Klein

Toward Second Language Acquisition - A Study of Null-Prep (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)

E. C. Klein

Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 17

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This book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers new perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship between first and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar (UG), and the target language input. Specifically, examination of the L2 development of pied-piping and preposition stranding in English questions and relative clauses shows that the required preposition is frequently omitted by learners who have demonstrated accurate subcategorization knowledge of verbal complements in related declarative constructions. The null-prep' data in the L2 grammar leads to an important cross-linguistic investigation of this largely ignored syntactic phenomenon in the world's languages; it also motivates exploration of the complex English input learners receive as positive evidence. An analysis of null-prep, piping and stranding is posited, including the relevant principles and parameters of UG involved. Based on this linguistic analysis, alternative explanations for the L2 phenomenon are offered, representing challenges to UG and markedness-based accounts of second language acquisition. Such challenges will be of interest to linguists as well as to students, teachers, reseachers and scholars interested in second language acquisition, particularly in its relationship to UG.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 17
Release date: September 1993
First published: 1993
Authors: E. C. Klein
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Edition: 1993 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-2463-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography
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LSN: 0-7923-2463-3
Barcode: 9780792324638

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