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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... universal grammar . Problems of Abstraction Indeed , this is exactly the argument for the revolution made by transformational grammar in the 1950s ( Chomsky , 1957 ) , in that it broke away from the ' old ' descriptivist tradition of ...
... universal grammar . Problems of Abstraction Indeed , this is exactly the argument for the revolution made by transformational grammar in the 1950s ( Chomsky , 1957 ) , in that it broke away from the ' old ' descriptivist tradition of ...
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... Grammar 3 , the more contemporary , the ' structuralist ' ( in its more recent sense ) explanatory and universal and cognitive ( universal grammar , the human language faculty ) . I still have to account for Grammar 2 from a linguistic ...
... Grammar 3 , the more contemporary , the ' structuralist ' ( in its more recent sense ) explanatory and universal and cognitive ( universal grammar , the human language faculty ) . I still have to account for Grammar 2 from a linguistic ...
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... Universal Grammar ( our Grammar 3 ) to construct his / her L1 ( our Grammar 1 ) on the basis of input from parents or other caretakers using their L1 ( Grammar 1 and Gram- mar 2 ) . The child is then socialised into a Standard Language ...
... Universal Grammar ( our Grammar 3 ) to construct his / her L1 ( our Grammar 1 ) on the basis of input from parents or other caretakers using their L1 ( Grammar 1 and Gram- mar 2 ) . The child is then socialised into a Standard Language ...
Contents
Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 9 |
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Lingualism and the Knowledges of the Native Speaker | 77 |
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