The current state of interlanguage studies in honor of William E. Rutherford (J. Benjamins, 1995)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The current state of interlanguage : introduction - Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker, Michael Sharwood Smith -- - Prominence in applied linguistics : Bill Rutherford - Peter Jordens -- - I-interlanguage and typology : the case of topic-prominence - Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews -- - Universals, SLA and language pedogogy : 1984 revisited - Susan Gass -- - Learnability, pre-emption, domain-specificity, and the instructional value of "Master Mind" - David Birdsong -- - Why we need grammar : confessions of a cognitive generalist - Ellen Bialystok -- - Chasing after linguistic theory : how minimal should we be? - Lydia White -- - The irelevance of verbal feedback to language learning - Susanne E. Carroll -- - Indirect negative evidence, inductive inferencing, and second language acquisition - India C. Plough -- - The negative effects of 'positive' evidence on L2 phonology - Martha Young-Scholten -- - German plurals in adult second language development : evidence for a dual-mechanism model of inflection - Harald Clahsen -- - Universal grammar in L2 acquisition : some thoughts on Schachter's incompleteness hypothesis - Sascha Felix
Acquiring linking rules and argument structures in a second language : the unaccusative/unergative distinction - Antonella Sorace -- - Data, evidence and rules - Maria Beck, Bonnie D. Schwartz, Lynn Eubank -- - Markedness aspects of case-marking in L1 French/L2 English interlanguage - Helmut Zobl -- - Language transfer : what do we really mean? - Gita Martohardjono, Suzanne Flynn -- - Age before beauty : Johnson and Newport revisited - Eric Kellerman -- - Style-shifting in oral interlanguage : quantification and definition - Jean-Marc Dewaele -- - Observations of language use in Spanish immersion classroom interactions - Susanna Blanco-Iglesias, Juaquina Broner, Elaine Tarone -- - Some neurolinguistic evidence regarding variation in interlanguage use : the status of the 'switch mechanism' - Marjorie Perlman Lorch -- - Beyond 2000 : a measure of productive lexicon in a second language - Batia Laufer -- - A first crosslinguistic look at paths : the difference between end-legs and medial ones - Háj Ross
This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is re