English Interlanguage Morphology

Author : Thomas Wagner
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3031506162

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English Interlanguage Morphology by Thomas Wagner Pdf

This book examines psycholinguistic elements of irregular verb morphology in English, using two empirical studies of young language learners in Austria to make evidence-based didactic recommendations for classroom use. The author first provides an up-to-date overview of the so-called past tense debate, encompassing the last four decades of linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cognitive research, before presenting an in-depth discussion of the notion of irregular and semi-regular verbal morphology in both German and English, with a focus on vowel change and apophony. Turning to his original research, he applies generalised linear mixed model analyses as well as conditional inference trees to the behavioural data, avoiding common pitfalls that come with traditional ANOVAs in repeated measure designs, and discusses the concrete implications of the experimental results on second language acquisition and instructed EFL teaching, with a focus on Input Processing. This book will be essential reading for SLA and applied linguistics researchers as well as graduate and postgraduate students in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.

Author : Thomas Wagner
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823375470

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Interlanguage Morphology by Thomas Wagner Pdf

This book presents the first detailed empirical study of irregular verb morphology in the German-English interlanguage. Starting with a theoretical in-depth account of irregular verb morphology both in English and German, three widely discussed theses about its nature are tested against a wide range of empirical data, both from L1 and L2. Although the findings partly confirm existing models and theories, the data also show the need for further re-examination of some fundamental questions through associative or probabilistic computer models. All in all this book provides a rigorous, profound and thought-provoking discussion of the phenomenon in question, involving an up-to-date revision of existing theories as well as the cross-linguistic examination of L1 and L2 data by an array of sophisticated multivariate statistical models. It is mainly directed towards university students of German and English linguistics, psycholinguistics and language acquisition at an advanced level. Das Buch bietet erstmals eine extensive und empirische fundierte Untersuchung dreier prävalenter Theorien und Modelle zur irregulären Verbmorphologie in englischen Muttersprachlern, deutschen Muttersprachlern und deutschen Lernern des Englischen. Die Ergebnisse multivariater L1 und L2 Datenauswertungen lassen profunde Rückschlüsse auf die Aussagekraft und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten der diskutierten Modelle zu. Darüber hinaus bietet das Theoriekapitel eine umfangreiche und detaillierte Aufarbeitung der Theorie irregulärer Verbmorphologie im Englischen und Deutschen.

Author : Richard Young
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002324973

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Variation in Interlanguage Morphology by Richard Young Pdf

This major contribution to second language acquisition theory examines the question of the systematicity of learners' language. Richard Young proposes a new descriptive model for handling what other investigators have claimed to be random variations in performance, and he tests the model on plural inflections in the English interlanguage of Chinese learners. The study investigates how factors such as the social context of speech, the linguistic environment of a variable, and the tendency to omit redundant information affect the developing interlanguage system. The representation of learners' language which emerges from this study is richer, more complex, and more descriptively adequate than has previously been available.

Author : Maria-Luise Beck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224873

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Morphology and Its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge by Maria-Luise Beck Pdf

The interface between syntax and morphology forms one of the more challenging aspects of linguistic theory and language acquisition. The papers collected here respond to that challenge from the perspective of adult second language (L2) acquisition.

Author : M. Rafael Salaberry,Yasuhiro Shirai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296252

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The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology by M. Rafael Salaberry,Yasuhiro Shirai Pdf

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks used to evaluate the nature of the empirical evidence range from generative grammar to functional-typological linguistics. Several studies focus on the development of past tense markers, but other issues such as the acquisition of a future marker are also addressed. An introductory chapter outlines some theoretical and methodological issues that serves as relevant preliminary reading for most of the chapters included in this volume. Additionally, a preliminary chapter offers a substantive review of first language acquisition of tense-aspect morphology. The analysis of the various languages included in this volume significantly advances our understanding of this phenomenon, and will serve as an important basis for future research.

Author : Sonia Rocca
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241465

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Child Second Language Acquisition by Sonia Rocca Pdf

As one of the first books in child second language acquisition (SLA), this book focuses on the core area of tense-aspect morphology, reporting on three L1-Italian children learning L2 English vs. three L1-English children learning L2 Italian. An innovative longitudinal/bidirectional research design, where two languages represent both source and target, show effects of language transfer in learners that, because of their age, still have potential to become native-speakers of the target. An unusual feature of this book is that relevant studies of acquisition of L2 Italian, some heretofore only in Italian, are reviewed, incorporated into the study and made available to a more general audience. Though the main focus is on child SLA, crucial comparisons to both first language acquisition vs. adult SLA are presented. This approach will thus be of interest more generally to readers in first and second language acquisition and child development.

Author : Virginia Yip
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281739

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Interlanguage and Learnability by Virginia Yip Pdf

This book investigates a set of structures characteristic of Chinese speakers' English interlanguage (CIL) in the light of grammatical theory and principles of learnability. As a study of CIL grammar, it illuminates both the theory of interlanguage syntax in general and some specific problems in the acquisition of English by Chinese L1 learners. A set of interrelated structures are investigated, including topicalization, passive, ergative, “tough movement” and existential constructions. The interlanguage is approached through the comparative syntax of the relevant L1 and L2 constructions, combining insights from Chomskyan Universal Grammar and typological research. CIL proves to be permeable to Chinese typological influence and bears topic-prominent characteristics, while showing effects of language universals. A parallel theme of the book is the question of learnability in the context of second language acquisition. The Subset and Uniqueness Principles are adapted to the L2 context so as to account for learning difficulty as well as successful acquisition. Under-generation and over-generation of the interlanguage and target constructions give rise to learnability problems which are formulated in terms of set relations at the level of individual constructions. The Uniqueness Principle is invoked to motivate preemption of overgenerated forms. The interaction of syntax and semantics plays a crucial role in the formulation and resolution of these learnability problems. General conceptual issues raised by the Subset and Uniqueness Principles are also discussed.

Author : ZhaoHong Han,Elaine Tarone
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270498

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Interlanguage by ZhaoHong Han,Elaine Tarone Pdf

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes a first-ever conceptual and empirical framework that continues to stimulate SLA research. Sparked by a heightened interest in this founding text on its 40th anniversary, 10 leaders in their respective fields of SLA research collectively examine extrapolations of the seminal text for the past, the present, and the future of SLA research. This book offers a rare resource for novices and experts alike in and beyond the field of SLA.

Author : Charlene J. Sato
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 3878082614

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The Syntax of Conversation in Interlanguage Development by Charlene J. Sato Pdf

Author : Miriam R. Eisenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781489909008

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The Dynamic Interlanguage by Miriam R. Eisenstein Pdf

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor who possesses communicative compe tence, a knowledge of language which accounts for its use in real-world con texts. Areas of variation previously relegated to idiosyncratic differences in performance have been found to be dynamic yet consistent and lend themselves to study and systematic description. Because language acquisition involves the development of communicative competence, by its very nature it incorporates variation and systematicity. Sec ond-language acquisition is similarly variable, since interlanguage is subject to the same universal and language-specific conventions. In addition, aspects of the second language have been found to be unevenly acquired and are differ entially reflected in particular contexts or settings. Yet, despite our expanding knowledge, this variability is only beginning to be treated in much of the sec ond-language acquisition literature. This volume presents the work of some researchers and methodologists who have taken on the challenge of including variation in their research designs and pedagogical recommendations. Variation is shown to be relevant to lin guistic, social, and psychological aspects of language. It is apparent in the registers and dialects of the target language and in the inter language of learners.

Author : Saskia Kersten
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 9783823365860

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The Mental Lexicon and Vocabulary Learning by Saskia Kersten Pdf

Author : Laurie Beth Feldman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134778331

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Morphological Aspects of Language Processing by Laurie Beth Feldman Pdf

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence. However, words and sentences are organized with respect to morphological as well as phonological components. It is thus unfortunate that the morpheme has received relatively little attention in the experimental literature, either from psychologists or linguists. Due to recent methodological developments, however, now is an opportune time to address morphological issues. In the experimental literature, there is a tendency to examine various psycholinguistic processes in English and then to assume that the account given applies with equal significance to English and to other languages. Written languages differ, however, in the extent to which they capture phonological as contrasted with morphological units. Moreover, with respect to the morpheme, languages differ in the principle by which morphemes are connected to form new words. This volume focuses on morphological processes in word recognition and reading with an eye toward comparing morphological processes with orthographic and phonological processes. Cross-language comparisons are examined as a tool with which to probe universal linguistic processes, and a variety of research methodologies are described. Because it makes the experimental literature in languages other than English more accessible, this book is expected to be of interest to many readers. It also directs attention to the subject of language processing in general -- an issue which is of central interest to cognitive psychologists and linguists as well as educators and clinicians.

Author : Francis Katamba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415270790

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Morphology by Francis Katamba Pdf

This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.

Author : Lynn Eubank,Larry Selinker,Michael Sharwood Smith
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285744

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The Current State of Interlanguage by Lynn Eubank,Larry Selinker,Michael Sharwood Smith Pdf

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is represented by L2 learners; the changing nature of linguistic theory itself; and the definition of usage phenomena like style shifting and code switching. The introduction to The Current State of Interlanguage gives a concise yet detailed overview of research in the field over the past 10 years, and focuses on the present growing concensus on a number of issues that were at one point highly controversial.

Author : Marion Schulte
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379638

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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology by Marion Schulte Pdf

This book presents a synchronic and diachronic investigation of two derivational English affixes. The suffixes -age and -ery are analysed on the basis of dictionary and corpus data and an adapted semantic map method is introduced as a new way of accounting for the semantic structure of derivatives. This study shows that the semantic structure of morphological categories can change signi ficantly over time, and that semantic maps can represent this change in a straightforward manner. The semantic maps visualise the relations and interdependencies of the readings expressed by derivatives, which leads to a new understanding of the semantic complexity of these categories.