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1) Subject: Grammatical Markedness and Information Processing in the
Acquisition of
Arabic as a Second Language

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Date: 06 Nov 2000
From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) [reposted from LINGUIST]
Subject: Grammatical Markedness and Information Processing in the
Acquisition of
Arabic as a Second Language

Grammatical Markedness and Information Processing in the Acquisition of
Arabic as a Second Language

FETHI MANSOURI
Deakin University

This book presents a comprehensive investigation into the acquisition
of Arabic as a second language. It has two primary objectives: first
to establish the developmental sequence for the acquisition of Arabic
interlanguage morphology and syntax; second to investigate
cross-linguistically certain claims and principles proposed in
Pienemann's (1998) Processability theory. This second objective is
particularly important as it explores issues of language processing
and language development (Clahsen 1984; Pienemann 1998) in a second
language acquisition (SLA) context where the target language (Arabic)
is typologically different to those languages previously investigated,
in particular, English, German and Spanish. The main research
questions stem from: Processability-related SLA research (Pienemann
1994, 1998; Johnston 1995; Andersen 1991); Arabic L1 research (Omar
1973); and Arabic SLA research (Al-Buanain 1987; Mansouri 1995, 1997).
With regard to the morpho-syntactic predictions generated through
Processability-related research, the findings of this study are
consistent with those reported by Pienemann (1994) and Johnston (1995)
on the acquisition of German and Spanish respectively. However, the
findings that relate to interlanguage morphology are less consistent
with the Processability-generated predictions.




Table of Contents:
Introduction

Chapter 1:  Description of the Arabic language
            Diglossia in Arabic
	    Linguistic description
	    Verbal morphology
            Phrasal agreement
	    Inter-phrasal agreement
	    Linguistic theory adopted in this study
	    Lexical Functional Grammar

Chapter 2:  Review of the relevant literature
	    Arabic L1 studies
	    Arabic L2 studies
	    Cross-linguistic studies on the acquisition of morpho-syntax

Chapter 3:  Theoretical framework
	    Historical perspective on SLA theories
	    Theoretical considerations
	    A Processability approach
	    Lexical Functional Grammar revisited
	    Research questions and hypotheses

Chapter 4:  Data-generated acquisition stages
	    Acquisition stages for interlanguage syntax
            Acquisition stages for interlanguage morphology
            Research questions in light of the overall findings

Chapter 5:  Theoretical discussion
            The Processability approach in light of the findings of this study
            Teachability issues

Chapter 6:  Conclusion
            Theoretical implications of the studys findings

References

Appendices




ISBN 2 89586 952 X.
LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 02.
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