Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence

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Abstract

I Points of Departure and Points of Contention.- 1 The Development of Metalinguistic Ability.- Development of Metalinguistic Abilities in the Native Language: A Chronology.- Individual Differences.- Correlates, Causes, and Consequences of Metalinguistic Ability.- Linguistic Development and Metalinguistic Development.- Literacy and Metalinguistic Development.- Cognitive Development and Metalinguistic Development3.- Correlates, Causes, Consequences: Reprise and Speculation.- 2 Epistemological and Psychological Factors in Metalinguistic Performance.- Is Metalinguistic Ability a Unitary Concept?.- Metalinguistic Skill.- Modelling Metalinguistic Performance.- The Vagaries of Metalinguistic Performance.- Judgments are Not Stable.- The Experimenter Effect.- Nominal Categories Are Perceived as Scalar.- The Language-as-Fixed-Effect Fallacy.- Contingent Variables.- Overview.- 3 Theoretical Concerns.- A Terminological, Conceptual, and Empirical Dispute.- Pros and Cons of Judgment Data in Linguistic Theory.- Linguistic Theory and the Psychology of Metalinguistic Performance.- II From Metalinguistic Performance to Interlinguistic Competence.- 4 Limitations and Potential of Metalinguistic Data in Second-Language Acquisition Theory.- The Pitfalls of Judgment Data in Second-Language Acquisition Theory: A Case Study.- The UG/L2 Paradigm.- The Problem.- The Mechanics of Language Acquisition:Parameter Setting and Markedness.- The UG Paradigm Applied to L2 Acquisition.- Research Within the UG/L2 Paradigm.- A Closer Look at the Logical Problem of L2 Acquisition.- The Logical Problem of the Data for the Logical Problem of L2 Acquisition.- Non-Universality of Evidence for the Logical Problem in L2 Acquisition.- Response Biases and the Limited Informativeness of Judgment Data.- A Confounding and Confounded Variable: Error Detection.- Avoiding the Pitfalls.- 5 Negative Evidence in First- and Second-Language Acquisition.- The Relevance of the Negative Input Question to LI and L2 Acquisition Theory.- Types of Negative Evidence.- Distribution of Response Types and Negative Evidence.- Non-Occurrence as a Type of Negative Evidence.- What Qualifies as Negative Evidence?.- Parameters of Variation in the Question of Negative Evidence.- Does Negative Evidence Exist?.- Is Negative Information in a Usable Form?.- Is Negative Information Used?.- Is Negative Evidence Necessary?.- Is Negative Evidence Beneficial?.- Negative Evidence and Information Processing.- Individual Differences in Use of Negative Evidence.- Experts and Novices.- Individual Differences in Metalinguistic Awareness..- Consciousness and the Negative Input Question.- Processing of Negative Information in L1 Acquisition.- Preface.- Relevant Research.- Summary.- Caveat: Not All Errors Are Alike.- Contingencies (A) and (C).- Contingency (B).- Contingency (D).- Aside: Hypothesis Types, Their Development and Disconfirmation.- Conclusions.- 6 The Known and the Unknown in Metalinguistic Performance.- A Parable.- The Birdsong and Kassen (1988) Study.- The Unknowns.- Coda.- Envoi.- Appendix A.- References.- Name Index.

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