24.2914, Books: Understanding Interfaces: Dom ínguez

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:02:32
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Understanding Interfaces: Domínguez

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Title: Understanding Interfaces 
Subtitle: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject
realization and word order variation

Series Title: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 55  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.55 

Author: Laura Domínguez

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271990 Pages: 267 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271990 Pages: 267 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271990 Pages: 267 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027253170 Pages: 267 Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027253170 Pages: 267 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027253170 Pages: 267 Price: U.S. $ 143.00

Abstract:

By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph
investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second
language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are
currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic phenomenon an
‘interface phenomenon’, and (2) what is the specific role that the interfaces
play in explaining language loss and persistent problems in second language
acquisition? Answers to these questions are provided by a theoretical
examination of the role that economy and computational efficiency play in
recent Minimalist models of the language faculty, as well as by evidence
obtained in two empirical studies examining the acquisition and attrition of
two interface phenomena: Spanish subject realization and word order variation.
The result is a new definition of ‘interface phenomena’ which deemphasizes
syntactic complexity and focuses on the effect of interface interpretive
conditions on syntactic structure. This work also shows that representational
deficits cannot be ruled out in the acquisition and attrition of interface
structures.

Linguistic Field(s): Bi- & Multilingualism
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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