Language processing and second language development : processability theory /

Pienemann, Manfred, 1951-

Language processing and second language development : processability theory / Language processing and 2nd language development Manfred Pienemann. - xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Studies in bilingualism, v. 15 0928-1533 ; . - Studies in bilingualism ; v. 15. .

Based on a paper presented at a workshop held in Washington, Sept. 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Preface: A brief overview -- Explanatory issues in SLA -- Introduction: The thematic focus -- Outline of the proposed theory -- Three competing approaches -- Language processing and language acquisition -- Introduction: The wider context -- Explaining SLA through processing strategies -- Limitations of the strategies approach -- Grammatical encoding -- Processing procedures for the acquisition of L2 grammar -- Processing procedures and the development of grammar -- Reasons for implementing processability into a theory of grammar -- A Sketch of Lexical-Functional Grammar -- Word order revisited -- Lexical, phrasal and inter-phrasal morphemes -- Empirical and theoretical issues in processability theory -- A test case: German morphology -- Dynamic systems and acquisition criteria -- Form-function relationships and processability -- Cross-linguistic validity and on-line evidence -- Typological plausibility -- English as L2 -- Swedish as L2 -- Application to Japanese -- Evidence from on-line experiments: the procedural skill hypothesis -- Hypothesis space -- Introduction -- Interlanguage variation and the developmental problem -- Teachability is constrained by processability -- Effects of formal intervention on IL variation -- Task variation: The steadiness hypothesis -- Developmental dynamics and Generative Entrenchment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject Index. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 7.

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Second language acquisition
Psycholinguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Interlanguage (Language learning)

P118.2. / P54 1998

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