Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition : : The Switch between Statistical and Grammatical Learning / / Stefano Rastelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Rastelli, Stefano,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]; ©2014
• سنة النشر: 2014
• اللغة: English
• سلاسل: Second Language Acquisition
• وصف مادي: 1 online resource (272 p.)

With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. Second Language Acquisition Facit Saltus ('Takes a Leap')
• 2. Discontinuity as Chunks Feed into Grammar
• 3. Discontinuity in the Maturing and in the Adapting Brain
• 4. Discontinuity and the Neurocognition of Second Language
• 5. Statistical Learning of a Second Language
• 6. Parts of L2 Grammar That Resist Statistical Learning
• Conclusions
• References
• Index