Call for Papers

Jae Jung Song jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ
Sat Mar 22 00:45:02 UTC 2003


CALL FOR PAPERS

We are calling for papers on the topic of Linguistic Typology and Korean
Language Acquisition. Accepted papers will be published in a single volume
in the Saffron Korean Linguistics Series (Eastern Art Publishing, London,
http://www.eapgroup.com).

One of the areas to which linguistic typology (and language universals) can
be usefully applied is language acquisition, be it first or second language
acquisition. The interaction between language universals research and
language acquisition research  -- the recognition of which goes back to
Jakobson's Kindersprache, Aphasie und Allgemeine Lautgesetze (1941) -- has
been discussed in detail in recent introductory texts on linguistic
typology, e.g. Song's Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax (Pearson
Education: 2001). The proposed volume seeks to explore this in the context
of Korean L1 and L2 acquisition data.

Some of the general issues to be dealt with in the volume include: the role of
language universals in explaining the L1 and L2 acquisition processes or
sequences; the role of language acquisition in the study of language
universals; L2 areas of difficulty that do not arise from native
language-target language differences; (re-)evaulation of acquisition data in
the light of recent developments in linguistic typology; the role of
language universals in L1 transfer; pedagogical implications of the
interaction between language universals research and language acquisition
research; and the like.

We are looking for original or unpublished papers that are not
simultaneously considered for publication elsewhere. Expressions of
interest in the form of a 250 word abstract should reach the editors by 31
May 2003 (preferably in Word as an e-mail attachment). Authors whose
abstracts are accepted will be invited to submit full papers for further
consideration. All papers will be reviewed by independent readers.

Editors of the proposed volume:

Jae Jung Song, University of Otago, NZ <jaejung.song at stonebow.otago.ac.nz>

Jaehoon Yeon, University of London, UK <jy1 at soas.ac.uk>



More information about the Funknet mailing list