Author: Manfred Pienemann
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: studies, biligualism, theory, processability, linguistic, aspects, cross
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $173.00
ISBN-10: 9027241414
ISBN-13: 9789027241412

Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make detailed and verifiable predictions about the developmental schedule for each language. This cross-linguistic perspective is also applied to the study of Li transfer by comparing the impact of processability and typological proximity. The typological perspective is extended by including a comparison of