Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition : : The Switch between Statistical and Grammatical Learning / / Stefano Rastelli.
With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Second Language Acquisition
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Second Language Acquisition Facit Saltus ('Takes a Leap')
- 2. Discontinuity as Chunks Feed into Grammar
- 3. Discontinuity in the Maturing and in the Adapting Brain
- 4. Discontinuity and the Neurocognition of Second Language
- 5. Statistical Learning of a Second Language
- 6. Parts of L2 Grammar That Resist Statistical Learning
- Conclusions
- References
- Index