Input and evidence
Subtitle: the raw material of second language acquisition
By: Susanne E. Carroll.
Series: Language acquisition and language disorders -- 25
Publisher: Benjamins
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Language Acquisition
Description: "Input and Evidence: The Raw Material of Second Language Acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback, repetitions, reformulations) play a role in language acquisition in addition to that played by ordinary conversation. At the same time, it embeds discussion of input within a framework which includes a serious treatment of language processing, including the problem of modularity and the question of how semantic representations can influence grammatical ones. It lays the foundation for the development of a truly explanatory theory of SLA in the form of the Autonomous Induction Theory which combines a model of induction with an interpretation of Universal Grammar, thereby permitting, for the the first time, a coherent approach to the problem of constraining induction in SLA."--BOOK JACKET.