17.285, Books: Lang Acquisition/Ling Theories: Franceschina

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Date: 26-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Fossilized Second Language Grammars: Franceschina 

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:39:20
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Fossilized Second Language Grammars: Franceschina 

Title: Fossilized Second Language Grammars 
Subtitle: The acquisition of grammatical gender 
Series Title: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 38  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LALD%2038 

Author: Florencia Franceschina, Lancaster University

Hardback: ISBN: 902725298X Pages: xxiv, 288 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902725298X Pages: xxiv, 288 Price: Europe EURO 115.00

Abstract:

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the
mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language
acquisition. Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how
a learner's first language and the age at which they acquire their second
language may contribute to the L2 knowledge that they can ultimately
attain. The empirical study focuses on a group of very advanced L2
speakers, and through a series of tests aims to discover what underpins
their near mastery of grammatical gender and other grammatical
properties.The book explores an account of persistent selective divergence
based on the idea that child and adult learners are fundamentally similar,
except that in adults the L1 plays the role of a fairly rigid filter of the
linguistic input. The impossibility of representing the new target language
other than by using the building blocks of the previously established L1 is
argued to be the main reason why near but not totally native like language
representations are formed and become established in adult L2 learners. 

Table of contents

Abstract  ix  
Acknowledgements  xi  
List of appendices  xiii  
List of tables  xv-xvii  
List of figures  xix-xxi  
Abbreviations  xxiii-xxiv  
Introduction  1-8  
Definitions, assumptions and predictions  9-41  
Competing theories of NS/NNS ultimate attainment differences  43-67  
Gender  69-120  
The empirical study  121-190  
Discussion  191-205  
Notes  207-214  
References  215-240  
Appendices  241-281  
Name index  283-286  
Subject index  287-288 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories

Written In: English  (eng)

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