20.3152, Books: Psycholing/Lang Acquisition: Montrul

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Date: 17-Sep-2009
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Montrul

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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:34:57
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Montrul

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Title: Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism 
Subtitle: Re-examining the Age Factor 
Series Title: Studies in Bilingualism 39  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiBil%2039 

Author: Silvina A. Montrul

Paperback: ISBN:  9789027241801 Pages: 312 Price: Europe EURO 36.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9789027241801 Pages: 312 Price: U.S. $ 54.00

Abstract:

Now Available in Paperback!

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical
perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely
new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of
the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage
speakers who, unlike adult second language learners, acquired two or more
languages in childhood. Despite having been exposed to their family
language early in life, many of these speakers never fully acquire, or
later lose, aspects of their first language sometime in childhood. The book
examines the structural characteristics of "incomplete" grammatical states
and highlights how age of acquisition is related to the type of linguistic
knowledge and behavior that emerges in L1 and L2 acquisition under
different environmental circumstances. By underscoring age of acquisition
as a unifying factor in the study of L2 acquisition and L1 attrition, it is
claimed that just as there are age effects in L2 acquisition, there are
also age effects, or even perhaps a critical period, in L1 attrition. The
book covers adult L2 acquisition, attrition in adults and in children, and
includes a comparison of adult heritage language speakers and second
language learners. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  xi-x  
Chapter 1. Foundations  1-25  
Chapter 2. Second language acquisition  27-61  
Chapter 3. First language attrition in adults  63-91  
Chapter 4. Bilingualism in early childhood  93-129  
Chapter 5. Bilingualism in middle and late childhood  131-159  
Chapter 6. Incomplete L1 acquisition in adults  161-206  
Chapter 7. Incomplete L1 and L2 acquisition in adults  207-248  
Chapter 8. Implications  249-275  
References  277-301  
Index of authors  303-307  
Index of terms  309-312  

"This important and well-written book offers a timely and well-balanced
review of recent research on non-native attainment. Montrul examines in
great detail how age of acquisition is related to non-native outcomes, not
only in L2 acquisition, but also in L1 attrition and in incomplete L1
acquisition as a result of early L2 acquisition, and how experiential
factors interact with the age factor in effecting these outcomes. This book
is a mine of information and is highly recommended to students of language
acquisition, language attrition and bilingualism alike." 
-Theo Bongaerts, University of Nijmegen 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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