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Language Transfer in Language Learning

Diana Masny, Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker

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1. List of Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction (by Gass, Susan M.) 4. A Role for the Mother Tongue (by Corder, S. Pit) 5. A New Account of Language Transfer (by Schachter, Jacquelyn) 6. Verification of Language Transfer (by Ard, Josh) 7. Nonobvious Transfer: On Predicting Epenthesis Errors (by Broselow, Ellen) 8. Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora (by Gundel, Jeanette K.) 9. Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo) 10. Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance (by Scarcella, Robin C.) 11. Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology (by Jordens, Peter) 12. Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure: Grammaticality judgments of Unilingual and Multilingual Learners (by Zobl, Helmut) 13. Language Transfer And Fossilization: The Multiple Effects Principle (by Selinker, Larry) 14. Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems? 15. Afterword

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1. List of Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction (by Gass, Susan M.) 4. A Role for the Mother Tongue (by Corder, S. Pit) 5. A New Account of Language Transfer (by Schachter, Jacquelyn) 6. Verification of Language Transfer (by Ard, Josh) 7. Nonobvious Transfer: On Predicting Epenthesis Errors (by Broselow, Ellen) 8. Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora (by Gundel, Jeanette K.) 9. Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo) 10. Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance (by Scarcella, Robin C.) 11. Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology (by Jordens, Peter) 12. Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure: Grammaticality judgments of Unilingual and Multilingual Learners (by Zobl, Helmut) 13. Language Transfer And Fossilization: The Multiple Effects Principle (by Selinker, Larry) 14. Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems? 15. Afterword

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1. List of Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction (by Gass, Susan M.) 4. A Role for the Mother Tongue (by Corder, S. Pit) 5. A New Account of Language Transfer (by Schachter, Jacquelyn) 6. Verification of Language Transfer (by Ard, Josh) 7. Nonobvious Transfer: On Predicting Epenthesis Errors (by Broselow, Ellen) 8. Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora (by Gundel, Jeanette K.) 9. Transfer and Variability of Rhetorical Redundancy in Apachean English Interlanguage (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo) 10. Discourse Accent in Second Language Performance (by Scarcella, Robin C.) 11. Discourse Functions in Interlanguage Morphology (by Jordens, Peter) 12. Prior Linguistic Knowledge and the Conversation of the Learning Procedure: Grammaticality judgments of Unilingual and Multilingual Learners (by Zobl, Helmut) 13. Language Transfer And Fossilization: The Multiple Effects Principle (by Selinker, Larry) 14. Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems? 15. Afterword

Key concepts: Interlanguage, Linguistics, Grammaticality, Grammar, Language transfer, First language, Computer science, Second-language acquisition

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