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Representational Modularity and Second Language Acquisition Research
Author(s) -
Towell Richard
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.0079-1636.2004.00138.x
Subject(s) - modularity (biology) , perspective (graphical) , computer science , linguistics , property (philosophy) , cognitive science , psychology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , genetics , biology
The intention in the final article in this special thematic number is: 1) briefly to review the nature of current linguistic theorising in SLA; 2) to provide illustrative examples of the data for which SLA must account; 3) on the basis of these examples, to identify aspects of SLA which cannot readily be explained by ‘property theories’ but which receive an explanation within Jackendoff's theory of Representational Modularity (Jackendoff 1997, 2002); and, 4) to conclude with a brief examination of what each perspective seems to have to offer researchers in SLA.