Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Volume 2: Psycholinguistic Issues

✍ Scribed by Susan Gass, Carolyn Madden, Dennis Preston and Larry Selinker (Editors)

• Publisher: Mulitlingual Matters, Ltd.
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Multilingual Matters, 50
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These volumes present a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. The contributors combine insights from recent research in a number of fields - quantitative sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language typology, social psychology, the sociology of language, ethnomethodology, pidgin-creole studies - which expose the richness of approaches represented in the volumes. A generalized view of second language acquisition, sensitive to both socio- and psycho-linguistic issues emerges, enabling the reader to see more directly the relevance of second language acquisition studies to the central questions of language.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Multilingual Matters Sreies......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright © 1989......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
SECTION ONE......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 11
SECTION TWO......Page 19
2 Accounting for Style-Shifting in Interlanguage......Page 21
3 Sources of Intra-Learner Variability in Language Use and Their Relationship to Second Language Acquisition......Page 30
4 The Theoretical Status of Variation in Interlanguage Development......Page 54
5 Ends and Means: Methods for the Study of Interlanguage Variation......Page 73
SECTION THREE......Page 100
6 Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Interlanguage Variation: A Vygotskyan Analysis......Page 102
7 Theoretical Implications of the Acquisition of the English Simple Past and Past Progressive: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle......Page 118
8 The Effect of Emotional Investment on L2 Production......Page 134
SECTION FOUR......Page 148
9 Exceptional Second Language Learners......Page 150
10 Immigrant Children Who Have Failed to Acquire Native English......Page 169
11 Maturational Changes of Language Acquisitional Abilities......Page 185
SECTION FIVE......Page 196
12 Variation in the Use of Referential Forms within the Context of Foreign Language Loss......Page 198
13 Morphological Interaction Between L1 and L2 in Language Attrition......Page 211
SECTION SIX......Page 226
14 Variable Rules as Prototype Schemas......Page 228
15 L2 Tense Variation in Navajo English......Page 242
16 Interlanguage, Interdialect and Typological Change......Page 252
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I......Page 263
INDEX......Page 265