The Native Speaker: Myth and RealityLinguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality. |
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... cognitive modules each having its own specific properties - a person's ( tacit ) grammatical knowl- edge represents ... cognitive systems : both are available for language learning - the first , the system of language - specific ...
... cognitive modules each having its own specific properties - a person's ( tacit ) grammatical knowl- edge represents ... cognitive systems : both are available for language learning - the first , the system of language - specific ...
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... cognition . I considered the view put forward by Felix ( 1987 ) that what is essential for native speaker development is the dual cognitive system . That is a reminder of earlier critical age views . What it does for us in this ...
... cognition . I considered the view put forward by Felix ( 1987 ) that what is essential for native speaker development is the dual cognitive system . That is a reminder of earlier critical age views . What it does for us in this ...
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... cognitive science , artificial intelligence and so on ) . The difficulty with this type of investigation as an account of language is that ( as with behaviour- ism in an earlier paradigm ) it tends to remake human cognition on the model ...
... cognitive science , artificial intelligence and so on ) . The difficulty with this type of investigation as an account of language is that ( as with behaviour- ism in an earlier paradigm ) it tends to remake human cognition on the model ...
Contents
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Communicative Competence Aspects of the Native Speaker | 97 |
Intelligibility and the Speech Community | 118 |
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