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Stringer, David – Second Language Research, 2021
Westergaard (2021) presents an updated account of the Linguistic Proximity Model and the micro-cue approach to the parser as an acquisition device. The property-by-property view of transfer inherent in this approach contrasts with other influential models that assume that third language (L3) acquisition involves the creation of a full copy of only…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Sorace, Antonella – Second Language Research, 2014
Amaral and Roeper (this issue; henceforth A&R) argue that all speakers -- regardless of whether monolingual or bilingual -- have multiple grammars in their mental language representations. They further claim that this simple assumption can explain many things: optionality in second language (L2) language behaviour, multilingualism, language…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing
Pérez-Leroux, Ana T. – Second Language Research, 2014
In this commentary, the author defends the Multiple Grammars (MG) theory proposed by Luiz Amaral and Tom Roepe (A&R) in the present issue. Topics discussed include second language acquisition, the concept of developmental optionality, and the idea that structural decisions involve the lexical dimension. The author states that A&R's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Hopp, Holger – Second Language Research, 2014
This article offers the author's commentary on the Multiple Grammars (MG) language acquisition theory proposed by Luiz Amaral and Tom Roeper in the present issue. Multiple Grammars advances the claim that optionality is a constitutive characteristic of any one grammar, with interlanguage grammars being perhaps the clearest examples of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Native Language
Truscott, John – Second Language Research, 2014
Optionality is a central phenomenon in second language acquisition (SLA), for which any adequate theory must account. Amaral and Roeper (this issue; henceforth A&R) offer an appealing approach to it, using Roeper's Multiple Grammars Theory, which was created with first language in mind but which extends very naturally to SLA. They include…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Westergaard, Marit – Second Language Research, 2014
The article by Amaral and Roeper (this issue; henceforth A&R) presents many interesting ideas about first and second language acquisition as well as some experimental data convincingly illustrating the difference between production and comprehension. The article extends the concept of Universal Bilingualism proposed in Roeper (1999) to second…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Acquisition
Pienemann, Manfred; Hakansson, Gisela – Second Language Research, 2007
Ute Bohnacker's (2006) article on the acquisition of the verb second (V2) property in German by native speakers of Swedish (also a V2 language) is an attempted rebuttal of Hakansson et al.'s (2002) work on first language (L1) transfer and aspects of the underlying theory on which the work is based: Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998). The…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Swedish, German
Kecskes, Istvan – Second Language Research, 2006
This article discusses three claims of the Graded Salience Hypothesis presented in Rachel Giora's book "On our mind". It is argued that these claims may give second language researchers the chance to revise the way they think about word meaning, the literal meaning-figurative meaning dichotomy and the role of context in language…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Language Research, Figurative Language

Carroll, Susanne E. – Second Language Research, 1999
Raises a series of problems that attach to the standard analysis of input to learning as the stimulus array minus unattended-to information, where attention is construed as a selection function. Demonstrates the inadequacy of this distinction as the foundation for a theory of input in second-language acquisition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Universals

Pienemann, Manfred; Johnston, Malcolm – Second Language Research, 1996
Replies to Mellow's (1996) criticism of the authors' second language acquisition model. The article argues that this model is based on the psychological concept of exchange of linguistic information and that Mellow's evaluation of various types of transformational analysis is irrelevant. The article also addresses several points of detail in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models