| 3rd Language Acquisit -Nop/118 Contributor(s): Leung, Yan-Kit Ingrid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1847691315 ISBN-13: 9781847691316 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $94.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in L3 acquisition and who are at the same time working within the generative framework i.e. Chomskys Universal Grammar (UG) approach to language acquisition. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Psycholinguistics |
| Dewey: 401.93 |
| LCCN: 2008035200 |
| Series: Second Language Acquisitions |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number of different geographical locations, such as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and the USA. This volume will appeal to those studying L3 acquisition from a variety of theoretical perspectives and should encourage scholarly exchange between the fields of bi-/multilingualism and SLA. |