A Cognitive View of Language Acquisition: Processability Theory and Beyond
Manfred Pienemann · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2010
The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of one cognitive view of language acquisition, Processability Theory (PT), which focuses on the development of grammar in L2 learners. The key assumption is that the development of L2 grammar is constrained by the language processor and that L2 grammatical development can be explained by the architecture of the language processor. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.