Chapter published in:
Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issuesEdited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 7] 2019
► pp. 13–48
Chapter 2Towards an integrated model of grammatical encoding and decoding in SLA
In this chapter, I consider the interface between production and comprehension
in second language acquisition (SLA). I argue that the two processes rely on (partially)
shared resources and propose an integrated encoding-decoding model of SLA. The core of the
model is a single syntactic processor underlying both second language (L2) grammatical
encoding and decoding. The model also includes a means of accounting for the interaction of
shared grammatical resources and key semantic aspects such as lexical semantics and event
probability on the comprehension process. My claims are tested in an empirical study
focussing on the L2 acquisition of English passive constructions by 24 learners with an L1
German background at different stages of L2 acquisition. The results of the data analysis
provide support for the notion of a single syntactic processor in L2 acquisition.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.A Shared Grammatical Workspace in language processing
- 3.The perspective on SLA – Processability Theory & the Multiple Constraints
Hypothesis
- 1Argument structure
- 2Functional structure
- 3Constituent structure
- 4The lexicon
- 4.An integrated perspective on encoding and decoding in SLA
- 5.The acquisition of the passive in comprehension and production
- 5.1The passive in LFG and PT
- 5.2Minimal requirements in production and comprehension
- 6.The study – Research design and results
- 6.1Tasks for data elicitation
- 6.2Data analysis
- 6.3Results
- 6.3.1Stages of acquisition
- 6.3.2Production data: Passive
- 6.3.3Comprehension data: Passive
- 6.3.4Relating comprehension and production data
- 7.Conclusion
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Notes -
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Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.7.02len
https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.7.02len
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