Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition : : A Tribute to Clive Perdue / / ed. by Marzena Watorek, Sandra Benazzo, Maya Hickmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aleksandrova, Tatiana,; Andorno, Cecilia,; Bartning, Inge,; Becker, Angelika,; Benazzo, Sandra,; Bernini, Giuliano,; Carroll, Mary,; Demagny, Annie-Claude,; Dietrich, Rainer,; Dimroth, Christine,; Eichler, Nadine,; Fusellier-Souza, Ivani,; Giuliano, Patrizia,; Haberzettl, Stefanie,; Halm, Ute,; Hendriks, Henriëtte,; Kail, Michèle,; Kao, Chung Shan,; Klein, Wolfgang,; Lemke, Vytautas,; Lenart, Ewa,; Lyons, John,; Muñoz, Carmen,; Müller, Natascha,; Perdue, Clive,; Ramat, Anna Giacalone,; Rast, Rebekah,; Schimke, Sarah,; Schlyter, Suzanne,; Singleton, David,; Slobin, Dan I.,; Sommer, Werner,; Stutterheim, Christiane von,; Sun, Jili,; Thomas, Anita,; Tracy, Rosemarie,; Trévisiol, Pascale,; Turco, Giuseppina,; Verhagen, Josje,; Vraciu, Eleonora Alexandra,; Watorek, Marzena,
• HerausgeberIn: Benazzo, Sandra,; Hickmann, Maya,; Watorek, Marzena,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (664 p.)

This volume aims to provide a broad view of second language acquisition within a comparative perspective that addresses results concerning adult and child learners across a variety of source and target languages. It brings together contributions at the forefront of language acquisition research that consider a wide range of open questions: What are the precise mechanisms underlying acquisition? How can we characterize learners’ initial state and predict their degree of final achievement? What role do specific (typological) properties of source and target languages play? How does fossilization occur? How does the relative complexity of cognitive systems in adult and child learners affect acquisition? Does language learning influence cognitive organization? Can language learning shed light on our general understanding of human language and language processing?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: New Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Language Acquisition – Clive Perdue’s Legacy -- Part 1: Second Language Acquisition: From Initial to Final Stages -- 1. A Way to Look at Second Language Acquisition -- 2. L2 Input and the L2 Initial State: The Writings of Clive Perdue -- 3. Finiteness and the Acquisition of Negation -- 4. The Different Role of Additive and Negative Particles in the Development of Finiteness in Early Adult L2 German and L2 Dutch -- 5. Lexical Categories in the Target Language and the Lexical Categorisation of Learners: The Word Class of Adverbs -- 6. Is it Necessary for Chinese Mandarin Speakers to Mark Time? Refl ections About the Use of Temporal Adverbs with Respect to Verbal Morphology -- 7. The Development of Reference to Time and Space in French L3: Evidence from Narratives -- 8. Verbal Morphology in Advanced Varieties of English L2: Aspect or Discourse Hypothesis? -- 9. High-Level Profi ciency in Second Language Use: Morphosyntax and Discourse -- 10. Ultimate Attainment and the Critical Period Hypothesis: Some Thorny Issues -- 11. Language Origins, Learner Varieties and Creating Language Anew: How Acquisitional Studies Can Contribute to Language Evolution Research -- 12. Multiple Perspectives on the Emergence and Development of Human Language: B. Comrie, C. Perdue and D. Slobin -- Part 2: L1 and L2 Acquisition: Learner Type Perspective -- 13. Child Language Study and Adult Language Acquisition: Twenty Years Later -- 14. The Derivation of Mixed DPs: Mixing of Functional Categories in Bilingual Children and in Second Language Learners -- 15. L1 or L2 Acquisition? Finiteness in Child Second Language Learners (cL2), Compared to Adult L2 Learners (aL2) and Young Bilingual Children (2L1) -- 16. Young L2 and L1 Learners: More Alike than Different -- 17. The Older the Better, or More is More: Language Acquisition in Childhood -- 18. Additive Scope Particles and Anaphoric Linkage in Narrative and Descriptive Texts: A Developmental Study in French L1 and L2 -- 19. Discourse Cohesion in Narrative Texts: The Role of Additive Means in Italian L1 and L2 -- 20. The Role of Conceptual Development in the Acquisition of the Spatial Domain by L1 and L2 Learners of French, English and Polish -- 21. The Grammaticalisation of Nominals in French L1 and L2: A Comparative Study of Child and Adult Acquisition -- Part 3: Typological Variation and Language Acquisition -- 22. Typology Meets Second Language Acquisition -- 23. Linguistic Relativity: Another Turn of the Screw -- 24. Paths in L2 Acquisition: The Expression of Temporality in Spatially Oriented Narration -- 25. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Narratives with Special Attention to the Progressive: A Contrast between English, Spanish and Catalan -- 26. Reference to Entities in Fictional Narratives of Russian/French Quasi-Bilinguals -- 27. The Cohesive Function of Word Order in L1 and L2 Italian: How VS Structures Mark Local and Global Coherence in the Discourse of Native Speakers and of Learners -- 28. Macrostructural Principles and the Development of Narrative Competence in L1 German: The Role of Grammar (8–14-Year-Olds) -- 29. Online Sentence Processing in Children and Adults: General and Specifi c Constraints. A Crosslinguistic Study in Four Languages -- 30. A Personal Tribute