24.1309, Books: The trouble with inflection for adult learners of Dutch: Oldenkamp

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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:09:14
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The trouble with inflection for adult learners of Dutch: Oldenkamp

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Title: The trouble with inflection for adult learners of Dutch 
Subtitle: A study of the L1-L2 interplay of morphosyntactic and phonetic-phonological
factors

Series Title: LOT dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Loes Oldenkamp

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931024 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 20.03 Comment: only available through internet

Abstract:

Children seem to acquire their mother tongue usually without special effort,
though this cannot be said of adults acquiring a new language. More
particularly, adult L2 learners have difficulties in the realisation of
(ad)nominal and verbal inflection. The question as to why adult L2 learners of
Dutch have these difficulties is the topic of this book. Traditionally,
morphosyntactic explanations have been given to clarify the difficulties L2
learners have in acquiring L2 inflectional morphology. Here , it is claimed
that morphosyntactic accounts alone cannot explain all problems L2 learners
have in acquiring inflectional morphology. Phonetic-phonological constraints
should be taken into account as well. To investigate this claim, a corpus
study was done and two processing experiments were conducted to test
lower-educated Turkish, Moroccan Arabic and Mandarin Chinese learners of Dutch
on their command of Dutch inflectional morphology. The use of both production
and perception data, the systematic incorporation of different L1 backgrounds
and L2 proficiency levels and the large number of participants included make
the design of this study truly unique. This study is of interest to scholars
working in the field of L2 acquisition, inflectional morphology, phonology,
and morphosyntax as well as to educators working with L2 learners. It shows
that the acquisition of inflectional morphology in a second language comprises
more than applying a grammatical rule. Accurate perception and production of
the phonemes serving as morphemes are of crucial importance as well.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Morphosyntax
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Written In: English  (eng)

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