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Language Learnability and L2 Phonology

The Acquisition of Metrical Parameters

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  1. John Archibald
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Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 19)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Developing a Theory of Language Acquisition

    • John Archibald
    Pages 1-31

  3. Metrical Phonology

    • John Archibald
    Pages 32-54

  4. Acquisition of L1 Stress

    • John Archibald
    Pages 55-61

  5. Research Methodology

    • John Archibald
    Pages 62-75

  6. The Polish Study

    • John Archibald
    Pages 76-109

  7. The Hungarian Study

    • John Archibald
    Pages 110-138

  8. Comparing the Polish and Hungarian Studies

    • John Archibald
    Pages 139-150

  9. Language Teachability

    • John Archibald
    Pages 151-174

  10. Summary

    • John Archibald
    Pages 175-177

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 178-201
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About this book

In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within a parametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. The studies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stress patterns (via both production and perception tasks) by adult speakers of Polish and Hungarian. Archibald argues that interlanguage grammars can be understood as a mix of L1 transfer and the effects of Universal Grammar. Metrical parameters related to such things as quantity--sensitivity, extrametricality, and word--tree dominance determine the structure of the interlanguage. The author reports that the subjects are remarkably successful at acquiring English stress and do not appear to violate proposed universals of metrical phonology.
This book is one of the few attempts to investigate the acquisition of L2 phonology within a UG framework. Empirical support is provided for the parametric model to an extent uncommon in most syntactic studies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language Learnability and L2 Phonology

  • Book Subtitle: The Acquisition of Metrical Parameters

  • Authors: John Archibald

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2056-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2486-7Published: 31 October 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4911-5Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2056-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 202

  • Topics: Language Education, Psycholinguistics, Phonology and Phonetics, Applied Linguistics

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