Rast, Rebekah,  1960- <br/><br/>
Foreign language input :  initial processing / 
Rebekah Rast. 
 - xvi, 261 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Second language acquisition ;  28 .
 - Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ;  28. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-257) and index. 
<br/><br/> Theoretical Preliminaries --  Input and Intake Revisited --  First Exposure Studies --  The Study --  Polish-French Contrastive Analysis --  Research Methodology --  The Adult's Available Knowledge at First Exposure to an Unknown Language --  Case Studies: Two Learners with Similar Linguistic Profiles --  Speech Perception --  Speech Comprehension --  Grammatical Analysis --  Concluding Remarks.  Pt. 1.  1.  2.  Pt. 2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10. 
<br/><br/> "This book presents the most comprehensive study to date of the starting point of second language acquisition. Its focus is on the language input that learners receive and what they actually do with this input. The empirical study detailed in the book follows a methodology in which all of the language input provided to the learners from the moment of first exposure is controlled, recorded and transcribed. This input is then quantitatively compared to the learners' performance on language tasks administered at various time intervals up to eight hours after first exposure. This in-depth analysis of the input and the learners' performance sheds light on questions still unanswered in second language acquisition literature, such as what knowledge is brought to the acquisition process and how learners use this knowledge to process new linguistic information."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1847690424 9781847690425 1847690416 9781847690418 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007040077 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Second language acquisition.<br/>Polish language--Acquisition
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P118.2  / .R37 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>401.93