Some Thoughts on the Contrastive Analysis of Features in Second Language Acquisition

Autor/in	Lardiere, Donna
Titel	Some Thoughts on the Contrastive Analysis of Features in Second Language Acquisition
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 25 (2009) 2, S.173-227 (55 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658308100283
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Second Language Learning; Mandarin Chinese; English; Contrastive Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Transfer of Training; Morphemes; Vocabulary; Korean; Language Universals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English language; Englisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Morphem; Wortschatz; Koreanisch
Abstract	In this article I discuss the selection and assembly of formal features in second language acquisition. Assembling the particular lexical items of a second language (L2) requires that the learner reconfigure features from the way these are represented in the first language (L1) into new formal configurations on possibly quite different types of lexical items in the L2. I illustrate the nature of the problem by comparing the assembly and expression of features involved in plural-marking in English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and situate this comparison with respect to specific claims of the Nominal Mapping Parameter and within a discussion of parameter (re)setting more generally. I conclude with a few even more general thoughts on the role of Universal Grammar (UG) in (second) language acquisition. (Contains 37 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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