Interpretation of English reflexives by child and adult L2 learners
By: by Amer Al Kafri
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781443848329
Subjects: English language; Reflexives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction; title: ch. Two Language Acquisition and Reflexive Binding; title: 2.1.Language Acquisition; title: 2.2.Properties of Reflexives in English, Arabic and Chinese; title: 2.3.Conclusion; title: ch. Three Language Acquisition and the Age Factor; title: 3.1.The Critical Period Hypothesis; title: 3.2.The Fundamental Difference Hypothesis; title: 3.3.The Domain-by-Age Model; title: 3.4.Conclusion; title: ch. Four Access to UG in L2 Acquisition of Reflexives; title: 4.1.Generative Views on Access to UG in L2 Acquisition; title: 4.2.Access to UG in the L2 Acquisition of Reflexives; title: 4.3.Research Questions and Hypotheses; title: ch. Five Methodology; title: 5.1.Participants; title: 5.2.Materials; title: 5.3.Procedure; title: 5.4.Scoring and Data Analysis; title: 5.5.Conclusion; title: ch. Six Results; title: 6.1.Proficiency Test Result; title: 6.2.Simon-Says Game Results (see Appendix G); title: 6.3.Age, Years of English Instruction and LOR; title: 6.4.Conclusion; title: ch. Seven Discussion and Conclusion; title: 7.1.UG Constraints in the L2 Acquisition of English Reflexives; title: 7.2.Access to UG in the L2 Acquisition of English Reflexives; title: 7.3.Syntactic Difference between Reflexives and Pronouns; title: 7.4.Differences and Similarities between Child and Adult L2 Learners; title: 7.5.Limitations and recommendations for further Research; title: 7.6.Conclusion.