11.80, Qs: OT and L2 Acquisition, Syntax and Chimpanzees

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Subject: 11.80, Qs: OT and L2 Acquisition, Syntax and Chimpanzees

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Date:  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:07:35 +0800
From:  Raung-fu  Chung <rfchung at mail.nsysu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Optimality Theory and L2 Acquisition

2)
Date:  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:21:48 -0500
From:  tner at hamptons.com (Jonathan Centner)
Subject:  Syntax and Chimpanzees/ Roger Fout

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Date:  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:07:35 +0800
From:  Raung-fu  Chung <rfchung at mail.nsysu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Optimality Theory and L2 Acquisition

Dear Friends,
  I am now trying to do a research on the application of OT(Optimality
Theory) to L2 phonology.  Is there anybody that can telle me or provide me
with more information about this field?  The information would be related
literature, papers, articles, books, dissertation, and the like.  I would
appreciate those who can help me.

   Best wishes,
     Raung-fu Chung

   Department of English
   National kaohsiung Normal University
   Kaohsiung, Taiwan


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:21:48 -0500
From:  tner at hamptons.com (Jonathan Centner)
Subject:  Syntax and Chimpanzees/ Roger Fout

Dear Listmembers:

I sent this question to the list and I wish to focus on Fout's claim that
chimpanzees have syntax and use it.  I give the issue a high order of
importance and wish to express interest in published comments and
non-published comments.

My current understanding of the issue is that they may indeed have an S
naught state which is intractable of matriculation to human language
behaviour.  Any claim of  non-human syntactic behaviour in my view requires
either rebuff or minute examination.

>Could someone point me to  some reviews of or published comments on Roger
>Fout's  _Next of Kin_?
>
>(William Morrow and Company, Oct 1997)
>
>TIA   Jonathan Centner
>Southampton,   New York


Jon Centner
Southampton, NY




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