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Creoles, interlanguages, processing and transfer: A response to Sprouse

Ingo Plag
p. 165-170

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Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral en décembre 2012.

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1. Introduction
2. Processing
3. Transfer

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1. Introduction

In his article in the first issue of this journal, Rex A. Sprouse (2009) presents a critique of two of my recent papers (Plag 2008a, 2008b) in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, in which I put forward the hypothesis that creoles are conventionalized interlanguages of an early stage. Sprouse’s critique would deserve a detailed treatment, which however, due to the space limitations imposed on this response, has to wait for another occasion. It may be worthwhile, however, to clarify at least some of the more important points raised in his article, one methodological, two theoretical. Sprouse accuses me of an ‘uncritical acceptance of Pienemann’s Processability Theory’, of entertaining a ‘traditional conception of transfer’, and of an ‘unwillingness to confront the rich generative literature on transfer’. In the following I will comment on each of these points.

2. Processing

It can be generally stated that the debate on the role of second language acquisition in c...

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Ingo Plag, « Creoles, interlanguages, processing and transfer: A response to Sprouse », Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère [En ligne], Aile... Lia 2 | 2009, mis en ligne le 01 décembre 2012, consulté le 16 mai 2012. URL : http://aile.revues.org/4545

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Ingo Plag

English Linguistics Fachbereich 3
Universitaet Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
D-57068 Siegen
(plag@anglistik.uni-siegen.de)

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