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<div><strong>Date:</strong> 03-Nov-2009 <br><strong>From:</strong> Mariėtte Bonenkamp <lot<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://uu.nl">uu.nl</a>><br><br><br>
Specific Language Impairment in a Bilingual Context: The acquisition of Dutch inflection by Turkish-Dutch learners </div>
<div><br>LOT Dissertation Series <br>Published: 2009 <br>Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT<br> <a href="http://www.lotpublications.nl/">http://www.lotpublications.nl/ </a><br>
<br>Author: Antje Orgassa <br>Paperback: ISBN: 9789078328995 Pages: Price: ---- <br>Abstract:<br><br>With the aim of specifying the relationship between SLI and L2 acquisition, <br>production data of various groups of L1 and L2 learners with and without <br>
SLI were compared. The experiments centered on the application of <br>morphosyntactic rules in Dutch that were considered vulnerable in SLI and <br>L2 acquisition. The results of systematic cross-group comparisons of error <br>
types and error frequencies contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate as <br>to whether (L2-)SLI is caused by linguistic-representational deficits or by <br>processing limitations. The issue of age dependencies on grammatical rule <br>
learning is also discussed in relation to L2 acquisition. <br><br>The central claim in this book is that the similarities in error patterns <br>across the impaired and unimpaired child L1 and child L2 groups indicate <br>
that all children rely on the same linguistic resources to derive grammar. <br>The persistent problems with inflectional morphology in the SLI groups are <br>interpreted in terms of processing limitations that affect either the <br>
intake needed to derive rules or the degree of automaticity to apply rules <br>once established. The present study also reveals how reduced intake affects <br>typical child L2 acquisition. If a large amount of consistent input is <br>
needed to derive grammar, it is possible that both SLI and L2(-SLI) <br>children may fossilize in immature stages resulting in incomplete <br>structure-specific representations. Interestingly, then, processing <br>accounts and representational accounts can be related. <br>
<br>This study is of interest to scholars working in the field of clinical <br>linguistics, L1 and L2 acquisition, inflectional morphology and educators <br>and therapists working with atypical language development in multilingual <br>
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