Acquisition and representation
Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 4
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006, ISBN: 978 90 272 1924 4
Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally
involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological,
morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components.
These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the
resulting interfaces between grammatical components that forms the main
topic of this volume, discussed from the perspective of bilingual L1
acquisition in early childhood and L2 in adulthood, as well as L1/L2 in
late childhood. The book contains ten contributions by members of the
Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg and by
other international scholars, all of them experts on multilingualism.
Several pairs of languages are dealt with, among them Spanish and
German, Mandarin and English, French and German, Italian and German,
Turkish and English, Turkish and German, Dutch and Turkish, as well as
Spoken German and German Sign language. Throughout the volume the
central issue is that of representation at the interface of grammatical
components.
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