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Second language acquisition.

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This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. Roumyana Slabakova reviews and discusses paradigms and findings from the last thirty years of research in the field, focussing in particular on how the second or additional language is represented in the mind and how it is used in communication. The adoption and analysis of a specific model of acquisition, the Bottleneck Hypothesis, provides a unifying perspective. The book assumes some non-technical knowledge of linguistics, but important concepts are clearly introduced and defined throughout, making it a valuable resource not only for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, but also for researchers in cognitive science and language teachers.

Psycholinguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Second language acquisition --- Second language acquisition. --- Fremdsprachenlernen. --- Linguistik.

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The past 50 years have witnessed achievement of a set of widely attested empirical findings on major research issues in SLA. They pertain to such matters as cross-linguistic influence; processes and sequences in interlanguage development; age effects; incidental and intentional, learning and implicit and explicit knowledge; the role of the linguistic environment and of the broader social context as sources of positive and negative evidence and of opportunities for input, interaction and output; and effects of individual differences in language aptitudes and other cognitive and affect variables. Robust findings in any scientific field constitute empirical ‘problems’ that require explanation and motivate theoretical work. In this inaugural volume of Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition , Michael Long, Gisela Granena and Yucel Yilmaz review work on a selection of these issues, and note implications of some of the work for language teaching, educational language planning, human migration, and other important matters of social concern.

Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition

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In this paper we present some statistics data regarding the preferential choices of native speakers of Russian and Italian and of Italian speakers of Russian with respect to the discourse structure and syntactic hierarchy. The research was conducted on the material of an original acquisition corpus, and has demonstrated that the discourse level is more resistant to the acquisition of the second language norms than the macrosyntactic level.

Language acquisition. --- Linguistics. --- Russian literature.

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Language acquisition --- Bilingualism in children --- Language acquisition --- Second language acquisition --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics