Rediscovering Interlanguage

An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology.

List of contents

Foreword, William E. Rutherford
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Scope of the study

1. Beginnings: Fries/Lado
2. Towards interlanguage: Uriel Weinreich
3. Units and equivalence across linguistic systems: Some bilingual data
4. Some problems of comparison: The CA literature
5. Some CA and EA ( and possibly IL ) data
6. Theoretical advances: Corder and Van Buren
7. The quintessential CA/IL notion: Language transfer
8. The continual discovery of IL
9. The reality of fossilization: An allegorical account
10. Reframing interlanguage: Where we are

Appendix
References
Index

About the author

Larry Selinker, William E. Rutherford

Summary

An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology.

Product details

• Authors: William E Rutherford, William E. Rutherford, Rutherford William E., Larry Selinker, Larry (University of Michigan) Rutherfor Selinker, Larry Rutherford Selinker, Selinker Larry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2015
• EAN: 9781138837478
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83747-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Applied Linguistics and Language Study; Applied Linguistics and Langua; Applied Linguistics and Language Study
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Language acquisition