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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankSecondLanguageAcquisitionandUniversalGrammarThisauthoritativetextbookprovidesanoverviewandanalysisofcurrentsecondlanguageacquisitionresearchconductedwithinthegenerativelinguisticframe-work.LydiaWhitearguesthatsecondlanguageacquisition
2、isconstrainedbyprin-ciplesandparametersofUniversalGrammar.Thebookfocusesoncharacterizingandexplainingtheunderlyinglinguisticcompetenceofsecondlanguagelearnersintermsofthesecontraints.TheoriesastotheroleofUniversalGrammarandtheextentofmother-tongueinfluencearepresen
3、tedanddiscussed,withparticularconsiderationgiventothenatureoftheinterlanguagegrammaratdifferentpointsindevelopment,fromtheinitialstatetotheultimateattainment.Throughoutthebook,hypothesesmaintainingthatsecondlanguagegrammarsareconstrainedbyuniversalprinciplesarecon
4、trastedwithclaimsthatUniversalGrammarisnotimplicated;relevantempiricalresearchispresentedfrombothsidesofthedebate.Thistextbookisessentialreadingforthosestudyingsecondlanguageacquisitionfromalinguisticperspective.lydiawhiteisProfessorofLinguisticsatMcGillUniversity
5、,Montr´eal,andChairoftheLinguisticsDepartment.Sheisinternationallyknownasaleadingexpertonsecondlanguageacquisition.SheistheauthorofUniversalGrammarandSecondLanguageAcquisition(JohnBenjamins,1989)andpublishesregu-larlyinmajorinternationaljournalsonlanguageacquisiti
6、on.CAMBRIDGETEXTBOOKSINLINGUISTICSGeneraleditors:p.austin,j.bresnan,b.comrie,w.dressler,c.j.ewen,r.huddleston,r.lass,d.lightfoot,i.roberts,s.romaine,n.v.smith,n.vincentSecondLanguageAcquisitionandUniversalGrammarInthisseriesp.h.matthewsMorphologySecondeditionb.com
7、rieAspectr.m.kempsonSemanticTheoryt.bynonHistoricalLinguisticsj.allwood,l.-g.andersonando.dahl¨LogicinLinguisticsd.b.fryThePhysicsofSpeechr.a.hudsonSociolinguisticsSecondeditiona.j.elliottChildLanguagep.h.matthewsSyntaxa.radfordTransformationalSyntaxl.bauerEnglish
8、Word-Formations.c.levinsonPragmaticsg.brownandg.yuleDiscourseAnalysisr.huddlestonIntroductiontotheGrammarofEnglishr.lassPhonologyb.comrieTensew.kleinSec
