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From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory: Pienemann 

	
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Title: Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory 
Series Title: Studies in Bilingualism 30  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiBil%2030 


Editor: Manfred Pienemann, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Hardback: ISBN: 9027241414 Pages: xiv, 303 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027241414 Pages: xiv, 303 Price: Europe EURO 115.00


Abstract:

Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory
of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines
the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic,
Chinese, and Japanese, the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make
detailed and verifiable predictions about the developmental schedule for
each language. This cross-linguistic perspective is also applied to the
study of L1 transfer by comparing the impact of processability and
typological proximity. The typological perspective is extended by including
a comparison of different types of language acquisition. The architecture
of PT is expanded by the addition of a second set of principles that
contributes to the formal modeling of levels of processability, namely the
mapping of argument-structure onto functional structure in lexical mapping
theory. This step yields the inclusion of a range of additional phenomena
in the processability hierarchy thus widening the scope of PT. 


Table of contents

Abbreviations  vii  
Preface  ix-xiii  

1. An introduction to Processability Theory 
Manfred Pienemann 1-60  

2. Discussing PT 
Manfred Pienemann 61-83  

3. Processability, typological distance and L1 transfer 
Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase, Satomi Kawaguchi and Gisela Håkansson
85-116  

4. Agreement morphology in Arabic as a second language: Typological
features and their processing implications 
Fethi Mansouri 117-153  

5. Processing and formal instruction in the L2 acquisition of five Chinese
grammatical morphemes 
Yanyin Zhang 155-177  

6. Similarities and differences in L1 and L2 development. Opening up the
perspective: including SLI 
Gisela Håkansson 179-197  

7. Extending Processability Theory 
Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase and Satomi Kawaguchi 199-251  

8. Argument structure and syntactic development in Japanese as a second
language 
Satomi Kawaguchi 253-298  

Subject index  299-303 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Japanese (jpn)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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