Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T13:43:17.159Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

How dynamic is second language acquisition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2006

Karsten Steinhauer
Karsten Steinhauer
Affiliation:
McGill University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Clahsen and Felser (CF) present a thought-provoking article that is likely to have a strong impact on the field, in particular, on developmental psycholinguistics and second language (L2) acquisition research. Unlike the majority of previous work on language acquisition that focused on “competence,” that is, the knowledge basis underlying grammar, CF emphasize the need to approach language acquisition with psycholinguistic measures of processing. Based primarily on behavioral and electrophysiological on-line data, they argue that language acquisition in early first language (L1) and late L2 follows different patterns.

Type
Commentaries
Information
Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 92 - 95
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Friederici A., Steinhauer K., & Pfeifer E. 2002. Brain signatures of artificial language processing: Evidence challenging the critical period hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 99, 529– 534.Google Scholar
Hahne A., Müller J., & Clahsen H. 2003. Second language learners' processing of inflected words: Behavioral and ERP evidence for storage and decomposition. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, 45, 1– 42.Google Scholar
Hyltenstam K., & Abrahamsson N. 2003. Maturational constraints in SLA. In C. J. Doughty & M. H. Long (Eds.), The handbook of second language acquisition (pp. 539– 588). Oxford: Blackwell.
Lück M., Hahne A., Friederici A., & Clahsen H. 2001, November. Developing brain potentials in children: An ERP study of German noun plurals. Paper presented at 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Sabourin L. 2003. Grammatical gender and second language processing: An ERP study. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Groningen.
Tokowicz N., & MacWhinney B. 2005. Implicit and explicit measures of sensitivity to violations in second language grammar: An event-related potential investigation. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 173– 204.Google Scholar
Ullman M. 2001. The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: The declarative/procedural model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4, 105– 122.Google Scholar
White L., & Genesee F. 1996. How native is near-native? The issue of ultimate attainment in adult second language acquisition. Second Language Research, 12, 233– 265.Google Scholar