A Minimalist Model of Language Acquisition: Economical Parameter Setting in SLA: Japanese Speaking Learners of English - Couverture souple

Bong, Hyun Kyung

 
9783639149548: A Minimalist Model of Language Acquisition: Economical Parameter Setting in SLA: Japanese Speaking Learners of English
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ISBN 10 : 3639149548 ISBN 13 : 9783639149548
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This monograph develops a ?weak deterministic? model of language acquisition that can accommodate first language (L1) acquisition, language change, and second language (L2) acquisition: namely the Economical Parameter-Setting model. This model is achieved by adopting the notion of economy employed in the theory of Universal Grammar (UG) developed in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and by modifying a pre-minimalist model of language learnability and language change developed by Clark and Roberts (1993). The main claims are that the processes of L1 acquisition and L2 acquisition are governed by the same economy principles and that the differences lie neither in different governing properties of the acquisition processes nor in different degrees of UG availability, but in factors that cause the divergence of parameter-settings from the input setting. The proposed causal factors are twofold: (i) particular variabilities of the input caused by L2 learning environments and (ii) the L1 lexicon. These factors contribute to an increased obscurity and ambiguity of the parameter settings embodied in the input.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This monograph develops a ?weak deterministic? model of language acquisition that can accommodate first language (L1) acquisition, language change, and second language (L2) acquisition: namely the Economical Parameter-Setting model. This model is achieved by adopting the notion of economy employed in the theory of Universal Grammar (UG) developed in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and by modifying a pre-minimalist model of language learnability and language change developed by Clark and Roberts (1993). The main claims are that the processes of L1 acquisition and L2 acquisition are governed by the same economy principles and that the differences lie neither in different governing properties of the acquisition processes nor in different degrees of UG availability, but in factors that cause the divergence of parameter-settings from the input setting. The proposed causal factors are twofold: (i) particular variabilities of the input caused by L2 learning environments and (ii) the L1 lexicon. These factors contribute to an increased obscurity and ambiguity of the parameter settings embodied in the input.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bong, Hyun Kyung (Miki) is Associate Professor of English at Shinshu University in Japan. She holds BA and MA in English Linguistics from Nagoya University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639149548
ISBN 13 
9783639149548
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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