Language processing and second language development : processability theory / Manfred Pienemann.

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

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