In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level (Smith; Terrill and Dunn; Bruhn de Garavito and Atoche; Liceras et al.; Müller). The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state (Sprouse; Schwartz; Kouwenberg; Aboh; Ionin). Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring (Sįnchez; Brousseau and Nikiema; Steele and Brousseau). The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state (Cornips and Hulk; Montrul; Lardiere). Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.
Recenzijas
The book will stand as a reference on the stages involved in the formation of creoles, as well as on the implications for the various components of language. In addition, it will prove to be a valuable resource for senior undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in the development of language in contact. -- Michele Stewart, The University of the West Indies, in Studies in Language Vol. 33:1, 2009
1. Preface;
2. Introduction (by Lefebvre, Claire);
3. Links between SLA
and Creole studies: Past and present (by Siegel, Jeff);
4. I. Contact;
5.
Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation
hypothesis (by Smith, Norval);
6. Semantic transference: Two preliminary case
studies from the Solomon Islands (by Terrill, Angela);
7. Variability in
contact Spanish: Implications for second language acquisition (by Bruhn de
Garavito, Joyce);
8. L2 Acquisition as a process of Creolization: Insights
form child and adult code-mixing (by Liceras, Juana M.);
9. Emerging
complementizers: German in contact with French/Italian (by Muller, Natascha);
10. II. Processes: Initial state (transfer and relexification);
11. Full
transfer and relexification: Second language acquisition and Creole genesis
(by Sprouse, Rex A.);
12. Transfer as bootstrapping (by Schwartz, Bonnie D.);
13. LI transfer and the cut-off point for L2 acquisition processes in Creole
formation (by Kouwenberg, Silvia);
14. The role of the syntax-semantics
interface in language transfer (by Aboh, Enoch O.);
15. A Comparison of
article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages (by Ionin, Tania);
16. III. Processes: Developing grammars (restructuring and reanalysis);
17.
Bilingual grammars and Creoles: Similarities between functional convergence
and morphological elaboration (by Sanchez, Liliana);
18. From GBE to Haitian:
The multi-stage evolution of syllable structure (by Brousseau, Anne-Marie);
19. Parallels in process: Comparing Haitian Creole and French learner
phonologies (by Steele, Jeffrey);
20. IV.Processes: Final state
(fossilization);
21. External and internal factors in billingual and
bidialectal language development: Grammatical gender of the Dutch definite
determiner (by Cornips, Leonie M.E.A.);
22. Incomplete acquisition in
bilingualism as an instance of language change (by Montrul, Silvina A.);
23.
Comparing Creole genisis with SLA in unlimited-acces contexts: Going beyond
relexification (by Lardiere, Donna);
24. Index of Languages and language
families;
25. Index of subjects
