Adult Language Acquisition: Volume 2, The Results: Cross-Linguistic PerspectivesThese two volumes present the methodology and results of an international research project on second language acquisition by adult immigrants. This project went beyond other studies in at least three respects: in the number of languages studied simultaneously; in the organisation of co-ordinated longitudinal studies in different linguistic environments; and in the type and range of linguistic phenomena investigated. It placed the study of second languages and inter-ethnic discourse on a firm empirical footing. Volume 1 explains and evaluates the research design adopted for the project. Volume 2 summarises the cross-linguistic results, under two main headings: native/non-native speaker interaction, and language production. Together they present the reader with a complete research procedure, and in doing so, make explicit the links between research questions, methodology, and results. |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
Utterance structure | 8 |
Word formation processes in talking about entities | 41 |
The acquisition of temporality | 73 |
Reference to space in learner varieties | 119 |
Ways of achieving understanding | 153 |
Feedback in second language acquisition | 196 |
a view from child language study | 239 |
Concluding remarks | 253 |
Steering Committee and researchers | 273 |
Common terms and phrases
acquired activity adult learners adverbials analysis anaphoric Angelina basic variety Berta Cambridge Charlie Charlie Chaplin communicative complex compositions constraints constructions context copula cross-linguistic cycle deictic denote devices discourse encoded Ergün European Science Foundation example express factors Fatima feedback forms function grammatical grammaticalised guage Gumperz head-final head-initial hypothesis inflexion initial input interac interaction Italian learners Klein learner varieties learners of Dutch learners of English learners of French learners of German learning lexemes lexical linguistic Madan Mahmut marking means Moroccan Moroccan Arabic morphological native speaker nouns observed organisation particular pattern Perdue prepositions principles problems pronouns Punjabi question Ravinder Reduplication reference relations relatum repetition role second language acquisition semantic sequence Slobin source language space Spanish spatial specific stages structure Swedish Table target language temporal tion Turkish understanding utterance verb Volume word formation