First and Second Language Acquisition - Parallels and Differences

Informationen zum Autor Jürgen M. Meisel is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages and a member and former Chair (1999–2006) of the Research Center on Bilingualism at the University of Hamburg. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Distinguished Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Calgary. He is one of the founding editors and current co-editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, published by Cambridge University Press. Klappentext The first textbook to systematically compare first and second language acquisition drawing on data from several languages. Zusammenfassung This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual and bilingual first language development and child and adult second language acquisition. The essential guide to studying first and second language acquisition! it will be used on courses in linguistics! modern languages and developmental psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The quest for the LAD; 2. First language development - Universal Grammar as the centerpiece of the human language making capacity; 3. Obvious (observable) similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition - developmental sequences; 4. The initial state and beyond; 5. Developing grammatical knowledge - parameter setting and inductive learning; 6. Neural maturation and age - opening and closing windows of opportunities; 7. A (tentative) theory of language acquisition - L1, 2L1, and L2.

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• Authors: J¿rgen M. Meisel, Jurgen M Meisel, Jurgen M. Meisel, Jürgen M. Meisel, Jurgen M. (Universitat Hamburg) Meisel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521557641
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55764-1
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Child & developmental psychology, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition