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Morales-Front, Alfonso; Sanz, Cristina – Second Language Research, 2021
Saussure proposed the division language/parole and argued that language can be studied as a formal system. Fifty years later Chomsky declared competence the core interest of linguistics. Although for years Generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) has adopted this view, a number of recent publications poke holes into the competence bubble.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Som, Bidisha – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
Each language is a unique tool for analyzing and synthesizing the world, incorporating the knowledge and values of a speech community. According to Sapir (1931), linguistic "categories [including] number, gender, case, tense, mode, voice, "aspect", and a host of others ... are not so much discovered in experience as imposed upon…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Knowledge, Semantics
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Pusch, L. F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Summarizes author's work in developing a transformational-generative grammar which can account for concurrent production of two or several languages. (DH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Bar-Adon, Aaron, Ed.; Leopold, Werner F., Ed. – 1971
The present volume is designed to help the student of child language, especially the beginning student, discover the high points of American and international research, such as French, German, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian. The selections in this reader are intended as an introduction to various fields of child language and to different theories and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Chinese, English