Input and evidence : the raw material of second language acquisition / Susanne E. Carroll.

ISBN:

9780585462462

9789027224934

9789027298218

Title:

Input and evidence : the raw material of second language acquisition / Susanne E. Carroll.

Author:

Carroll, Susanne.

Personal Author:

Carroll, Susanne.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 461 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 25

Contents:

INPUT AND EVIDENCE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Questions, problems, and definitions; Chapter 2 Property and transition theories; Chapter 3 The representational and developmental problems of language acquisition; Chapter 4 The autonomous induction model; Chapter 5 Constraints on i-learning; Chapter 6 The logical problem of (second) language acquisition revisited; Chapter 7 Input and the Modularity Hypothesis; Chapter 8 The evidence for negative evidence.

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Subject Term:

Second language acquisition.

Linguistic models.

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Publication Date:

2001

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Summary

Input and Evidence: the raw material of second language acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback, repetitions, reformulations) play a role in language acquisition in addition to that played by ordinary conversation. At the same time, it embeds discussion of input within a framework which includes a serious treatment of language processing, including the problem of modularity and the question of how semantic representations can influence grammatical ones. It lays the foundation for the development of a truly explanatory theory of SLA in the form of the Autonomous Induction Theory which combines a model of induction with an interpretation of Universal Grammar, thereby permitting, for the the first time, a coherent approach to the problem of constraining induction in SLA.