TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rastelli,Stefano
TI  - Discontinuity in second language acquisition: the switch between statistical and grammatical learning 
T2  - Second language acquisition
SN  - 9781783092475
AV  - P118 .D573 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Bristol, Buffalo
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Second language acquisition
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Applied linguistics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1 Second Language Acquisition Facit Saltus ('Takes a Leap'); 2 Discontinuity as Chunks Feedinto Grammar; 3 Discontinuity in the Maturing and in the Adapting Brain; 4 Discontinuity and the Neurocognition of Second Language; 5 Statistical Learning of a Second Language; 6 Parts of L2 Grammar That Resist Statistical Learning; Conclusions; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and ''quantized'' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one way of learning to another is statistically-driven and grammatically motivated. The volume brings together and discusses insights and evidence from learner corpora analysis and electrophysiological data in an attempt to provide the reader with a unified outlook and it suggests a new, developmentally-orient
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