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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number of different geographical locations, such as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and the USA. This volume will appeal to those studying L3 acquisition from a variety of theoretical perspectives and should encourage scholarly exchange between the fields of bi-/multilingualism and SLA.

Representational Deficits in SLA
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Representational Deficits in SLA

The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been devoted to explaining lack of native-like success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are representational deficits in the post-critical-period L2 learners' grammar. The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is that they provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L2 learner under investigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment.

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in L3 acquisition and who are at the same time working within the generative framework i.e. Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) approach to language acquisition. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties.

Functional Categories in Second and Third Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

Functional Categories in Second and Third Language Acquisition

"This thesis investigates non-native language acquisition of the verbal and nominal functional domains in Second language (L2) English and second/third language (L2/L3) French by Chinese and Vietnamese speakers. Six experimental studies are reported. Two current competing theories in the field of theoretical second language acquisition (L2A), namely, the Failed Features Hypothesis (FFH) and the Full Transfer Full Access (FTFA) model are compared and their applicability to third language acquisition (L3A) evaluated in the light of our data." --

ACQUISITION OF FRENCH AS A 3RD
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

ACQUISITION OF FRENCH AS A 3RD

This dissertation, "The Acquisition of French as a Third Language in Hong Kong: Interlanguage and Typology" by Yan-kit, Ingrid, Leung, 梁恩結, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3121556 Subjects: French language - Study and teaching (Higher) - China - Hong Kong French language - China - Hong Kong - Study and teaching - Chinese speakers French language - China - Hong Kong - Study and teaching - Bilingual method French language - Acquisition

Second Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Second Language Acquisition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This comprehensive textbook provides a linguistics-based introduction to second language acquisition research. Innovatively structured by acquisition topics rather than theories, allowing for a non-linear approach, it covers a broad range of linguistic approaches.

The Acquisition of French as a Third Language in Hong Kong
  • Language: en

The Acquisition of French as a Third Language in Hong Kong

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition

This volume brings together chapters written by specialists in North America, Europe and Brazil. It includes original research about the acquisition (L1, bilingualism) and acquisition/ learning (L2 or L3) of dialects of Brazilian and European Portuguese. In an effort to maximize volume cohesion, the emphasis has been on contributions that present studies exploring both empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition of syntax, and its interfaces with morphology, with semantics/pragmatics, and with language change. Within the generative paradigm alone there are various volumes on the acquisition of other languages, but there are no volumes currently in print focusing on the ...

The Acquisition of French
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

The Acquisition of French

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. This approach allows for multiple comparisons across acquisition contexts, which provides the reader with invaluable insights into the nature of the acquisition process. The book is divided into four parts each dealing with a major morphosyntactic domain of acquisition: the verbal domain, the pronominal domain, the nominal domain, and the CP domain. Each part contains four chapters, the first one presenting an overview of the basic facts and analyses of the relevant properties of French, and the next three focusing on the different acquisition contexts. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of French and in language development in general. It is also meant to stimulate cross-linguistic research from a theoretical perspective."

Inquiries in Linguistic Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Inquiries in Linguistic Development

The authors present current work on language acquisition which further investigates several themes developed by White's research.