L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis

Dialogues

Editors

Claire Lefebvre

| University of Quebec, Montreal

Lydia White

| McGill University

Christine Jourdan

| Concordia University

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027253026 | EUR 125.00 | USD 188.00

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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	vii
Introduction Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan	1–14
Links between SLA and Creole studies: Past and present Jeff Siegel	15–46
I. Contact
Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation hypothesis Norval Smith	49–65
Semantic transference: Two preliminary case studies from the Solomon Islands Angela Terrill and Michael Dunn	67–85
Variability in contact Spanish: Implications for second language acquisition Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Cristina Atoche	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	113–144
Emerging complementizers: German in contact with French/Italian Natascha Müller	145–165
II. Processes
Full transfer and relexification: Second language acquisition and Creole genesis Rex A. Sprouse	169–181
Transfer as bootstrapping Bonnie D. Schwartz	183–204
LI transfer and the cut-off point for L2 acquisition processes in Creole formation Silvia Kouwenberg	205–219
The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer Enoch Oladé Aboh	221–252
A Comparison of article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages Tania Ionin	253–273
III. Processes
Bilingual grammars and Creoles: Similarities between functional convergence and morphological elaboration Liliana Sánchez	277–294
From GBE to Haitian: The multi-stage evolution of syllable structure Anne-Marie Brousseau and Emmanuel Nikiema	295–330
Parallels in process: Comparing Haitian Creole and French learner phonologies Jeffrey Steele and Anne-Marie Brousseau	331–352
IV.Processes
External and internal factors in billingual and bidialectal language development: Grammatical gender of the Dutch definite determiner Leonie Cornips and Aafke Hulk	355–377
Incomplete acquisition in bilingualism as an instance of language change Silvina Montrul	379–400
Comparing Creole genisis with SLA in unlimited-acces contexts: Going beyond relexification Donna Lardiere	401–427
Index of Languages and language families	429–430
Index of subjects	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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Subjects

Linguistics

Bilingualism

Creole studies

Language acquisition

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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