Multiple Grammars: Old Wine in Old Bottles

Autor/in	Sorace, Antonella
Titel	Multiple Grammars: Old Wine in Old Bottles
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 30 (2014) 1, S.71-74 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658313517846
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Grammar; Second Language Learning; Linguistic Theory; Language Processing; Multilingualism; Interlanguage; Language Universals; Language Research; Criticism; Native Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Linguistische Theorie; Sprachverarbeitung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Zielsprache; Sprachforschung; Kritik
Abstract	Amaral and Roeper (this issue; henceforth A&R) argue that all speakers -- regardless of whether monolingual or bilingual -- have multiple grammars in their mental language representations. They further claim that this simple assumption can explain many things: optionality in second language (L2) language behaviour, multilingualism, language change, and L2 language processing: in essence, all the developmental phenomena that are the focus of current research. In this article, Antonella Sorace asserts that A&R are right that a linguistic theory of multiple grammatical representations is necessary; however, their proposal falls short of explaining anything that we did not already know and in fact fails to account for what we do know. In this commentary, Sorace addresses three points. First, the idea that multiple grammars has been at the foundations of models of L2 acquisition ever since the concept of "interlanguage" was proposed. Second, she clarifies misunderstandings regarding recent work on L2 optionality. Third, she argues that A&R do not offer a new descriptive account of L2 optionality, let alone a new formal model of optionality, largely because they limit themselves to restating the problem instead of suggesting solutions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10