The Acquisition of German - Vainikka, Anne;Young-Scholten, Martha
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The Acquisition of German: Introducing Organic Grammar brings together work on the acquisition of German from over four decades of child L1 and immigrant L2 learner studies. The bookâ??s major feature is new longitudinal data from three secondary school students who began an exchange year in Germany with no German knowledge and attained fluency. Their naturalistic acquisition processâ?? with a succession of stages described for the first time in L2 acquisitionâ?? is highly similar to that ofyounger learners. This has important implications for German teaching and for the theory of Universal…mehr

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The Acquisition of German: Introducing Organic Grammar brings together work on the acquisition of German from over four decades of child L1 and immigrant L2 learner studies. The bookâ??s major feature is new longitudinal data from three secondary school students who began an exchange year in Germany with no German knowledge and attained fluency. Their naturalistic acquisition processâ?? with a succession of stages described for the first time in L2 acquisitionâ?? is highly similar to that ofyounger learners. This has important implications for German teaching and for the theory of Universal Grammar and acquisition. Organic Grammar, a variant of generative syntax, isoffered as a practical alternative to Chomskyâ??s Minimalism. The analysis focuses on extensive monthly samples of the three studentsâ?? German development in an input-rich environment. Similar to previous studies, the teenagers build syntactic structure from the bottom up. Two acquired correct word order by the end of the year, the third, who had greater conscious awareness of German grammar, had a divergent route of development, suggesting that language awareness can alter a natural developmental path. The results are addressed in light of recent debates in child-adult differences.
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Anne Vainikka,Johns Hopkins University, USA; Martha Young-Scholten, University of Newcastle, UK