L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis
Dialogues
University of Quebec, Montreal / McGill University / Concordia University
In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level (Smith; Terrill and Dunn; Bruhn de Garavito and Atoche; Liceras et al.; Müller). The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state (Sprouse; Schwartz; Kouwenberg; Aboh; Ionin). Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring (Sánchez; Brousseau and Nikiema; Steele and Brousseau). The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state (Cornips and Hulk; Montrul; Lardiere). Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42]
2006.
viii, 433 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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vii
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Introduction
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1–14
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Links between SLA and Creole studies: Past and present
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15–46
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I. Contact
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Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation hypothesis
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49–65
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Semantic transference: Two preliminary case studies from the Solomon Islands
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67–85
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Variability in contact Spanish: Implications for second language acquisition
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87–111
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L2 Acquisition as a process of Creolization: Insights form child and adult code-mixing
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113–144
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Emerging complementizers: German in contact with French/Italian
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145–165
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II. Processes
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Full transfer and relexification: Second language acquisition and Creole genesis
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169–181
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Transfer as bootstrapping
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183–204
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LI transfer and the cut-off point for L2 acquisition processes in Creole formation
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205–219
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The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer
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221–252
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A Comparison of article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages
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253–273
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III. Processes
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Bilingual grammars and Creoles: Similarities between functional convergence and morphological elaboration
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277–294
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From GBE to Haitian: The multi-stage evolution of syllable structure
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295–330
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Parallels in process: Comparing Haitian Creole and French learner phonologies
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331–352
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IV.Processes
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External and internal factors in billingual and bidialectal language development: Grammatical gender of the Dutch definite determiner
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355–377
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Incomplete acquisition in bilingualism as an instance of language change
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379–400
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Comparing Creole genisis with SLA in unlimited-acces contexts: Going beyond relexification
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401–427
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Index of Languages and language families
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429–430
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Index of subjects
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431–433
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Quotes
“The book will stand as a reference on the stages involved in the formation of creoles, as well as on the implications for the various components of language. In addition, it will prove to be a valuable resource for senior undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in the development of language in contact.”
Michele Stewart, The University of the West Indies, in Studies in Language Vol. 33:1, 2009
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2006047804