A Brief History of Processing Approaches to SLA: Reply to Mellow.

Pienemann, Manfred; Johnston, Malcolm

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Publication Date: 1996

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A Brief History of Processing Approaches to SLA: Reply to Mellow.

Pienemann, Manfred; Johnston, Malcolm

Second Language Research, v12 n3 p319-34 1996

Replies to Mellow's (1996) criticism of the authors' second language acquisition model. The article argues that this model is based on the psychological concept of exchange of linguistic information and that Mellow's evaluation of various types of transformational analysis is irrelevant. The article also addresses several points of detail in Mellow's article. (36 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models, Predictive Validity, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Structural Linguistics, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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