Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence

I Points of Departure and Points of Contention. - 1 The Development of Metalinguistic Ability. - Development of Metalinguistic Abilities in the Native Language: A Chronology. - Individual Differences. - Correlates, Causes, and Consequences of Metalinguistic Ability. - Linguistic Development and Metalinguistic Development. - Literacy and Metalinguistic Development. - Cognitive Development and Metalinguistic Development3. - Correlates, Causes, Consequences: Reprise and Speculation. - 2 Epistemological and Psychological Factors in Metalinguistic Performance. - Is Metalinguistic Ability a Unitary Concept? - Metalinguistic Skill. - Modelling Metalinguistic Performance. - The Vagaries of Metalinguistic Performance. - Judgments are Not Stable. - The Experimenter Effect. - Nominal Categories Are Perceived as Scalar. - The Language-as-Fixed-Effect Fallacy. - Contingent Variables. - Overview. - 3 Theoretical Concerns. - A Terminological, Conceptual, and Empirical Dispute. - Pros and Cons of Judgment Data in Linguistic Theory. - Linguistic Theory and the Psychology of Metalinguistic Performance. - II From Metalinguistic Performance to Interlinguistic Competence. - 4 Limitations and Potential of Metalinguistic Data in Second-Language Acquisition Theory. - The Pitfalls of Judgment Data in Second-Language Acquisition Theory: A Case Study. - The UG/L2 Paradigm. - The "Logical Problem". - The Mechanics of Language Acquisition:Parameter Setting and Markedness. - The UG Paradigm Applied to L2 Acquisition. - Research Within the UG/L2 Paradigm. - A Closer Look at the Logical Problem of L2 Acquisition. - The Logical Problem of the Data for the Logical Problem of L2 Acquisition. - Non-Universality of Evidence for the Logical Problem in L2 Acquisition. - Response Biases and the Limited Informativeness of Judgment Data. - A Confounding and Confounded Variable: Error Detection. - Avoiding the Pitfalls. - 5 Negative Evidence in First- and Second-Language Acquisition. - The Relevance of the Negative Input Question to LI and L2 Acquisition Theory. - Types of Negative Evidence. - Distribution of Response Types and Negative Evidence. - Non-Occurrence as a Type of Negative Evidence. - What Qualifies as Negative Evidence? - Parameters of Variation in the Question of Negative Evidence. - Does Negative Evidence Exist? - Is Negative Information in a Usable Form? - Is Negative Information Used? - Is Negative Evidence Necessary? - Is Negative Evidence Beneficial? - Negative Evidence and Information Processing. - Individual Differences in Use of Negative Evidence. - Experts and Novices. - Individual Differences in Metalinguistic Awareness. - Consciousness and the Negative Input Question. - Processing of Negative Information in L1 Acquisition. - Preface. - Relevant Research. - Summary. - Caveat: Not All Errors Are Alike. - Contingencies (A) and (C). - Contingency (B). - Contingency (D). - Aside: Hypothesis Types, Their Development and Disconfirmation. - Conclusions. - 6 The Known and the Unknown in Metalinguistic Performance. - A Parable. - The Birdsong and Kassen (1988) Study. - The Unknowns. - Coda. - Envoi. - Appendix A. - References. - Name Index.