2. Property and transition theories

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables xiii
4. List of figures xv
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. 1. Questions, problems, and definitions 1
7. 2. Property and transition theories 37
8. 3. The representational and developmental problems of language acquisition 65
9. 4. The autonomous induction model 119
10. 5. Constraints on i-learning 179
11. 6. The logical problem of (second) language acquisition revisited 207
12. 7. Input and the Modularity Hypothesis 249
13. 8. The evidence for negative evidence 289
14. 9. Feedback in the Autonomous Induction Theory 347
15. 10. The interpretation of verbal feedback 371
16. Epilogue 393
17. Appendix 1: Acceptability judgement task 395
18. Appendix 2: Experimental session 397
19. References 401
20. Subject index 449