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The Acquisition of German: Introducing Organic Grammar brings
together work on the acquisition of German from over four decades
of child L1 and immigrant L2 learner studies. The book's major
feature is new longitudinal data from three secondary school
students who began an exchange year in Germany with no German
knowledge and attained fluency. Their naturalistic acquisition
process - with a succession of stages described for the first time
in L2 acquisition - is highly similar to that of younger learners.
This has important implications for German teaching and for the
theory of Universal Grammar and acquisition. Organic Grammar, a
variant of generative syntax, is offered as a practical alternative
to Chomsky's Minimalism. The analysis focuses on extensive monthly
samples of the three students' German development in an input-rich
environment. Similar to previous studies, the teenagers build
syntactic structure from the bottom up. Two acquired correct word
order by the end of the year, the third, who had greater conscious
awareness of German grammar, had a divergent route of development,
suggesting that language awareness can alter a natural
developmental path. The results are addressed in light of recent
debates in child-adult differences.
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