L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis

Dialogues

Editors

Claire Lefebvre | University of Quebec, Montreal

Lydia White | McGill University

Christine Jourdan | Concordia University

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In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level (Smith; Terrill and Dunn; Bruhn de Garavito and Atoche; Liceras et al.; Müller). The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state (Sprouse; Schwartz; Kouwenberg; Aboh; Ionin). Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring (Sánchez; Brousseau and Nikiema; Steele and Brousseau). The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state (Cornips and Hulk; Montrul; Lardiere). Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.42

Table of Contents

Preface | p. vii

Introduction

Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan | pp. 1–14

Links between SLA and Creole studies: Past and present

Jeff Siegel | pp. 15–46

I. Contact

Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation hypothesis

Norval Smith | pp. 49–65

Semantic transference: Two preliminary case studies from the Solomon Islands

Angela Terrill and Michael Dunn | pp. 67–85

Variability in contact Spanish: Implications for second language acquisition

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Cristina Atoche | pp. 87–111

L2 Acquisition as a process of Creolization: Insights form child and adult code-mixing

Juana M. Liceras, C. Martinez, R. Pérez-Tattam, S. Perales and Raquel Fernández Fuertes | pp. 113–144

Emerging complementizers: German in contact with French/Italian

Natascha Müller | pp. 145–165

II. Processes: Initial state (transfer and relexification)

Full transfer and relexification: Second language acquisition and Creole genesis

Rex A. Sprouse | pp. 169–181

Transfer as bootstrapping

Bonnie D. Schwartz | pp. 183–204

LI transfer and the cut-off point for L2 acquisition processes in Creole formation

Silvia Kouwenberg | pp. 205–219

The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer

Enoch Oladé Aboh | pp. 221–252

A Comparison of article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages

Tania Ionin | pp. 253–273

III. Processes: Developing grammars (restructuring and reanalysis)

Bilingual grammars and Creoles: Similarities between functional convergence and morphological elaboration

Liliana Sánchez | pp. 277–294

From GBE to Haitian: The multi-stage evolution of syllable structure

Anne-Marie Brousseau and Emmanuel Nikiema | pp. 295–330

Parallels in process: Comparing Haitian Creole and French learner phonologies

Jeffrey Steele and Anne-Marie Brousseau | pp. 331–352

IV.Processes: Final state (fossilization)

External and internal factors in billingual and bidialectal language development: Grammatical gender of the Dutch definite determiner

Leonie Cornips and Aafke Hulk | pp. 355–377

Incomplete acquisition in bilingualism as an instance of language change

Silvina Montrul | pp. 379–400

Comparing Creole genisis with SLA in unlimited-acces contexts: Going beyond relexification

Donna Lardiere | pp. 401–427

Index of Languages and language families | pp. 429–430

Index of subjects | pp. 431–433

“The book will stand as a reference on the stages involved in the formation of creoles, as well as on the implications for the various components of language. In addition, it will prove to be a valuable resource for senior undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in the development of language in contact.”

Michele Stewart, The University of the West Indies, in Studies in Language Vol. 33:1, 2009

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