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How Optimal Is the Optimization Model?
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Heine, Bernd – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Pieter Muysken's article on modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena constitutes an important contribution.The approach chosen is a top-down one, building on the author's extensive knowledge of all matters relating to language contact. The paper aims at integrating a wide range of factors and levels of social, cognitive, and…
Descriptors: Generalization, Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory, Social Environment
Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact in Brussels and Strasbourg.
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Tests hypotheses from the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts the asymmetries between the mutual influences of the Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very powerful tool for describing the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Summary of "Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact."
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Summarizes a keynote address that tested hypotheses from the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts the asymmetries between the mutual influences of the Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Peer Commentaries on "Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact."
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Beeching, Kate; Poplack, Shana; Meechan, Marjory; Sebba, Mark; Singh, Rajendra; Stolz, Thomas; Thomason, Sarah Grey; Winford, Donald – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Seven peer commentaries are provided in response to a paper that tested hypotheses from a model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts asymmetries between mutual influences of Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
The Nuts and Bolts of Language Contact.
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Responds to peer commentaries written in response to a paper examining the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts asymmetries between mutual influences of Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Acquisition by Processing: A Modular Perspective on Language Development
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Truscott, John; Smith, Mike Sharwood – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
The paper offers a model of language development, first and second, within a processing perspective. We first sketch a modular view of language, in which competence is embodied in the processing mechanisms. We then propose a novel approach to language acquisition (Acquisition by Processing Theory, or APT), in which development of the module occurs…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning