Full Description
Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical components that forms the main topic of this volume, discussed from the perspective of bilingual L1 acquisition in early childhood and L2 in adulthood, as well as L1/L2 in late childhood. The book contains ten contributions by members of the Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg and by other international scholars, all of them experts on multilingualism. Several pairs of languages are dealt with, among them Spanish and German, Mandarin and English, French and German, Italian and German, Turkish and English, Turkish and German, Dutch and Turkish, as well as Spoken German and German Sign language. Throughout the volume the central issue is that of representation at the interface of grammatical components.
Contents
1. Forward (by Lleo, Conxita); 2. The prosody of early two-word utterances by German and Spanish monolingual and bilingual children (by Lleo, Conxita); 3. Fundamental frequency in Mandarin and English: Comparing first- and second-language speakers (by Visceglia, Tanya); 4. The development of forms and functions in the acquisition of tense and aspect in German-French bilingual children (by Rieckborn, Susanne); 5. The acquisition of V2 and subordinate clauses in early successive acquisition of German (by Rothweiler, Monika); 6. Between 2L1- and child L2 acquisition: An experimental study of bilingual Dutch (by Hulk, Aafke); 7. The emergence of article forms and functions in the language acquisition of a German-Italian bilingual child (by Kupisch, Tanja); 8. Persistent problems with case morphology in L2 acquisition (by Haznedar, Belma); 9. Personal reference in Japanese (by Felix, Sascha); 10. Sign languages: Representation, processing, and interface conditions (by Leuninger, Helen); 11. Limits to modularity: The 'insertion' of complex 'lexical' constructions in codeswitching (by Backus, Ad); 12. Index
