Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556192363 ISBN 13: 9781556192364

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991

Synopsis

Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental questions, viz., the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view. Contributors (c) and Respondents (r) are: Wolfgang Klein (c)/Nina Hyams (r); Sascha Felix (c)/Jacquelyn Schachter (r); Suzanne Flynn & Sharon Manuel (c)/David Birdsong (r); Lydia White (c)/Robert Bley-Vroman (r); Peter Jordens (c)/Lynn Eubank (r); Jurgen Meisel (c)/Bonnie Schwartz (r); Sharon Hilles (c)/William O'Grady (r); Daniel Finer (c)/Margaret Thomas (r); Usha Lakshmanan (c)/Nina Hymans & Ken Safir (r).

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556192363
• ISBN 13: 9781556192364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 449
• Editor: Eubank Lynn