Language Transfer in Language Learning
Revised edition
Editors
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role within a Contrastive Analysis framework to its current position within Universal Grammar. The introduction presents a continuum of thought starting from the late 70s, a time in which major rethinking in the field regarding the concept of language transfer was beginning to take place, and continuing through the present day in which language transfer is integrated within current concepts and theoretical models. The afterword unites the issues discussed and allows the reader to place these issues in the context of future research. For the present book, the 1983 edition has been thoroughly revised, and some papers have been replaced and added.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 5] 1992. x, 236 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
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Preface
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IntroductionSusan M. Gass and Larry Selinker | p. 1
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A Role for the Mother TongueS. Pit Corder | p. 18
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A New Account of Language TransferJacquelyn Schachter | p. 32
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Verification of Language TransferJosh Ard and Taco Homburg | p. 47
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Nonobvious Transfer: On Predicting Epenthesis ErrorsEllen Broselow | p. 71
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Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal AnaphoraJeanette K. Gundel and Elaine Tarone | p. 87
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Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English InterlanguageH. Guillermo Bartelt | p. 101
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Discourse Accent in Second Language PerformanceRobin C. Scarcella | p. 109
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Discourse Functions in Interlanguage MorphologyPeter Jordens | p. 138
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Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure: Grammaticality judgments of Unilingual and Multilingual LearnersHelmut Zobl | p. 176
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Language Transfer And Fossilization: The “Multiple Effects Principle”Larry Selinker and Usha Lakshmanan | p. 197
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Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems? | p. 217
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Afterword | p. 233
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