Language Learnability And Language Development
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Language Learnability and Language Development
Author: Steven Pinker
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2009-07-01
In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author, this classic work continues to be an indispensable resource in developmental psycholinguistics.
Language Acquisition
Author: Paul Fletcher
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1986-05-22
An invaluable resource for students and professionals alike with an interest in child language acquisition.
Language Learnability and L2 Phonology
Author: J. Archibald
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2012-12-06
In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within a parametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. The studies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stress patterns (via both production and perception tasks) by adult speakers of Polish and Hungarian. Archibald argues that interlanguage grammars can be understood as a mix of L1 transfer and the effects of Universal Grammar. Metrical parameters related to such things as quantity--sensitivity, extrametricality, and word--tree dominance determine the structure of the interlanguage. The author reports that the subjects are remarkably successful at acquiring English stress and do not appear to violate proposed universals of metrical phonology. This book is one of the few attempts to investigate the acquisition of L2 phonology within a UG framework. Empirical support is provided for the parametric model to an extent uncommon in most syntactic studies.