The L2 Acquisition of /r/

Wode, Henning

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“…In the Universal Grammar (UG) model, all languages share the same phonological categories but differ in terms of parameter settings (Slobin 1985;Clarksen & Muysken 1986;Richtie 1968;Sjoholm 1976;Wode 1977Wode , 1980Ringbom 1978Ringbom , 1992Purcell & Suter 1980;Sato 1984;Kellerman 1977;Raupah 1987;Bley-Vroman 1989;Gasser 1990;Hancin-Bhatt 1992, 1994Eckman & Iverson 1994;Schwartz & Eubank 1996;Archibald 1998;Young-Scholten & Archibald 2000). There are two basic parameter settings.…”

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Beginning L2 production errors in ASL lexical phonology

Rosen

2004

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This study examines production errors in ASL lexical phonology by beginning L2 adult learners, more particularly the handshape, location, movement, palm orientation, and nonmanual phonological segments. Studies in L2 adult learning of ASL are scant. For possible analytical models, first and second language acquisition models such as L1 transfer, Universal Grammar, and L1 child development are examined. The models do not capture the essence of phonology production errors in L2 ASL. A Cognitive Phonology Model is proposed to account for the errors. The errors are shaped by perception of sign formulation and poor motor dexterity. Production errors that are influenced by poor motor dexterity by adult L2 learners consist of substitutions, displacements, switches, additions, deletions, and incompletions of features within segments. Production errors that are shaped by perception of sign formulation consist of mirrorization, parallelization, addition, and deletion of features within segments.For adult learners whose first languages (L1) are spoken, learning American Sign Language (ASL) lexical phonology as a second language (L2) for the first time presents challenges. Producing a lexical system of a language requires incorporating its articulatory segments. Beginning L2 learners of ASL need to learn the visual-manual articulatory segments in ASL. In the course of learning ASL phonological rules for lexical items the L2 learners frequently make production errors. How should beginning L2 production errors in ASL lexical phonology be analyzed and explained? Studies in the production of lexical phonological system of ASL by L2 learners are scant. To assess possible models of analysis and explanation of L2 lexical phonology production errors, I review three models of first and second language acquisition.

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Section: 2 Universal Grammarmentioning

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Beginning L2 production errors in ASL lexical phonology

Rosen

2004

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“…Much the same inadequacies noted with respect to the predictivc capacity of the above theories apply to the approaches based on behavioristic conditioning like, for example, Mowrer 1952 (Wode 1977b). For behavioristic theories to gain precision and predictive power they have to be enriched such that they will provide ways for identifying minutely the Stimulus that the child reacts to in any acquisitional Situation.…”

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The Beginnings of Non-School Room L2 Phonological Acquisition

Wode¹

1978

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Quatre enfants allemands äges de 4 a 9 ans apprenaient l'anglais comme langue etrangere (L2) sans etre soumis a aucune forme d'enseignement. Les dates fondees sur le langage spontane ainsi que les dates experimentales semblent indiquer que Pacquisition naturelle du Systeme phonologique en L2 n'est ni completement parallele a l'acquisition phonologique en Ll, ni completement differente non plus. II y a, plutot, certaines similarites ä Tacquisition dirigee de L2 (c-a-d. l'enseignement d'une langue etrangere). L'acquisition naturelle du Systeme phonologique en L2 semble etre un processus assez complexe, et le recours ä Ll en forme une partie integrale. Apparemment, les enfants acquierent le Systeme phonologique de L2 sur la base de leur Systeme phonologique de Ll. Le caractere systematique du recours ä Ll, qui peut etre prognostique, n'est pas f onde sur les differences globales entre Ll et L2, mais sur leurs similarites specifiables en termes phonetiques/phonologiques.Vier deutschsprachige Kinder lernten im Alter von 4-9 Jahren anläßlich eines halbjährigen Aufenthaltes in den Vereinigten Staaten Englisch, ohne daß sie Fremdsprachenunterricht (FU) erhielten. Trotz einiger individueller Unterschiede zwischen den Kindern verlief ihr L2-Erwerb des englischen Lautsystems im wesentlichen gleich. Er deckt sich trotz vieler Parallelen im Grundsätzlichen wie im Detail nicht völlig mit dem Ll-Erwerb. Wie dieser ist der L2-Erwerb ein hochgradig strukturierter Prozeß. Im Einklang mit dem FU unterscheidet sich der L2-Erwerb vom L l-Erwerb vor allem durch den Rückgriff auf Ll. Er ist ein integrierter Bestandteil des L2-Erwerbs. Dieser Rückgriff unterliegt jedoch einer strengen Systematik. Es scheint, als könne es zu einem Rückgriff auf Ll nur kommen, wenn bestimmte sprachlich-strukturelle Voraussetzungen in der L2-Entwicklung des jeweiligen Kindes gegeben sind. Diese Systematik basiert nicht auf globalen Unterschieden zwischen Ll und L2, sondern auf phonetisch-phonologisch genau bestimmbaren Ähnlichkeiten. PurposeIn the past the acquisition of phonology has been studied extensively for L l acquisition and for foreign language teaching. Both lines of research have been carried out fairly independent of each other. As far äs I can make out, there has been no large-scale attempt to interrelate these two lines of research. It seems to me that a different approach is necessary. Man is unique in that only he can acquire a -human -language. In fact, he can acquire more than one; and he can Revised Version of Arbeitspapiere zum Spracherwerb Nr. 8, 1975, Englisches Seminar der Universität, Kiel. Thanks are due to several people on our research group, notably

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“…In this chapter, W. points out that only phonological data readily lends itself to an interpretation in support of the interference hypothesis (cf. Wode, 1977 for a discussion of the same data).…”

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