Paths of Development in L1 And L2 Acquisition: In Honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)

233 Pages·2006·18.33 MB·English

by  Sharon Unsworth

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PathsofDevelopmentinL1andL2acquisition
Language Acquisition & Language Disorders
Volumesinthisseriesprovideaforumforresearchcontributingtotheoriesof
languageacquisition(firstandsecond,childandadult),languagelearnability,
languageattritionandlanguagedisorders.
SeriesEditors
HaraldClahsen LydiaWhite
UniversityofEssex McGillUniversity
EditorialBoard
MelissaF.Bowerman LuigiRizzi
MaxPlanckInstitutfürPsycholinguistik,Nijmegen UniversityofSiena
KatherineDemuth BonnieD.Schwartz
BrownUniversity UniversityofHawaiiatManao
WolfgangU.Dressler AntonellaSorace
UniversitätWien UniversityofEdinburgh
NinaHyams KarinStromswold
UniversityofCaliforniaatLosAngeles RutgersUniversity
JürgenM.Meisel JürgenWeissenborn
UniversitätHamburg UniversitätPotsdam
WilliamO’Grady FrankWijnen
UniversityofHawaii UtrechtUniversity
MabelRice
UniversityofKansas
Volume39
PathsofDevelopmentinL1andL2acquisition:
InhonorofBonnieD.Schwartz
EditedbySharonUnsworth,TeresaParodi,AntonellaSorace
andMarthaYoung-Scholten
Paths of Development
in L1 and L2 acquisition
In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz
Editedby
Sharon Unsworth
UtrechtUniversity
Teresa Parodi
UniversityofCambridge
Antonella Sorace
UniversityofEdinburgh
Martha Young-Scholten
UniversityofNewcastleuponTyne
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Table of contents
Listofcontributors vii
Introduction 1
SharonUnsworth,TeresaParodi,AntonellaSorace,
andMarthaYoung-Scholten
TheacquisitionofvoiceandtransitivityalternationsinGreek
asnativeandsecondlanguage 15
IanthiMariaTsimpli
DoRootInfinitiveseverhaveanovertsubjectinchildFrench? 57
CécileDeCat
Therootsofsyntaxandhowtheygrow:OrganicGrammar,theBasic
VarietyandProcessabilityTheory 77
AnneVainikkaandMarthaYoung-Scholten
NeutergenderandinterfacevulnerabilityinchildL2/2L1Dutch 107
AafkeHulkandLeonieCornips
ThedevelopmentofPATHS:Spatialcomplexityandthemultiple
predicatestrategy 135
DavidStringer
MoreevidenceontheknowledgeofunaccusativityinL2Japanese 161
MakikoHirakawa
Whattransfers? 187
MelindaWhong-Barr
FullTransferFullAccess:Aprocessing-orientedinterpretation 201
MichaelSharwoodSmithandJohnTruscott
Nameindex 217
Subjectindex 221

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List of contributors
Editors NewcastleuponTyne
NE17RU
SharonUnsworth
UK
UtrechtUniversity
[email protected]
Trans10
3512JKUtrecht
Contributors
TheNetherlands
[email protected] IanthiMariaTsimpli
Dept.ofTheoretical
TeresaParodi andAppliedLinguistics
ResearchCentreforEnglish SchoolofEnglish
andAppliedLinguistics AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki,
UniversityofCambridge Thessaloniki54124
Cambridge Greece
CB39DP [email protected]
UK
[email protected] CécileDeCat
DepartmentofLinguisticsandPhonetics
AntonellaSorace SchoolofModernLanguagesandCultures
TheoreticalandAppliedLinguistics UniversityofLeeds
SchoolofPhilosophy,Psychology& Leeds
LanguageSciences LS29JT
UniversityofEdinburgh UK
AdamFergusonBuilding [email protected]
40GeorgeSquare
Edinburgh AnneVainikka
EH89LL CognitiveScienceDepartment
Scotland JohnsHopkinsUniversity
UK KriegerHall
[email protected] Baltimore,MD21214
USA
MarthaYoung-Scholten [email protected]
SchoolofEnglishLiterature,
LanguageandLinguistics AafkeHulk
PercyBuilding UniversityofAmsterdam
UniversityofNewcastleuponTyne Spuistraat210
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 Listofcontributors
1012VTAmsterdam MelindaWhong-Barr
TheNetherlands DepartmentofLinguistics
[email protected] UniversityofDurham
ElvetRiversideIINewElvetDurham
LeonieCornips DH13JT
MeertensInstitute UK
Postbus94264 [email protected]
1090GGAmsterdam
[email protected]
MichaelSharwoodSmith
SchoolofManagement
DavidStringer
andLanguages
FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences
Heriot-WattUniversity
MieUniversity
Edinburgh
1577Kurimamachiya-cho
Scotland
Tsu-shi
UK
Mie-ken514-8507
[email protected]
Japan
[email protected]
JohnTruscott
MakikoHirakawa DepartmentofForeignLanguages
TokyoInternationalUniversity andLiterature
2509Matoba NationalTsingHuaUniversity
KawagoeSaitama Hsinchu
Japan350-1198 Taiwan
[email protected] [email protected]
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Introduction
SharonUnsworth,TeresaParodi,AntonellaSorace,
andMarthaYoung-Scholten
UtrechtUniversity/UniversityofCambridge/UniversityofEdinburgh/
UniversityofNewcastleuponTyne
. Issuesinaddressingthedevelopmentalproblem
This volume deals with the developmental problem in both native (L1) and
non-native(L2)acquisition.Thedevelopmentalproblemoflanguageacquisition
relates to how acquisition proceeds, that is, how learnersmove fromone de-
velopmentalstagetoanother,andhowandwhygrammarsdevelopinacertain
fashion.Themainfocusofgenerativelanguagedevelopmentresearchinrecent
decades,however,hasbeenthelogical problemoflanguageacquisition,thatis,
explainingthenatureofthelearners’systemandwhetherandhowlearnersgo
beyondthe inputtoacquire complexlinguisticknowledge.The developmen-
talandthelogicalproblemsofL1/L2acquisitionarenotinoppositiontoeach
other;rather,theyarecomplementary.AsHawkins(2001)argues,wecanprob-
ablylearnmoreaboutthenatureofL2acquisition(orjustasmuch)bylooking
atdevelopmentthanbylookingatthelogicalproblem.Thus,anycompletethe-
oryofL1/L2acquisitionneedstoaddressbothoftheseissues.InGregg’s(1996)
terms,acompletetheoryofacquisitionshouldincorporatebothpropertyand
transitiontheories.It isthislatteraspect of acquisition, thatis, development,
whichwillbeaddressedinthepresentvolume.Webelievethatevidencefrom
developmentalpaths in different domains of acquisition can contribute to a
unifiedtheoryoflanguagedevelopment.
Analysing paths of development (which need not necessarily result in
grammars that converge on the target language; see e.g. Bley-Vroman 1989
on the comparative fallacy) will furnish us with the evidence necessary to
determinethesimilaritiesanddifferenceswhichmayexistbetweentypesofac-