Representational deficits in SLA : studies in honor of Roger Hawkins / edited by Neal Snape ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Snape, Neal.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 47.

Language acquisition and language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

xxv, 250 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of the distributional and interpretational properties of the English present simple (e.g., She works at home) and present progressive (e.g., She is working at home). To test whether advanced L2 learners are successful in assigning target-like meanings to these forms, sixteen advanced L1 French-L2 English and thirteen L1 English informants participated in two oral tasks and a written gap-fill task. Results indicate that these L2 speakers use both forms productively, but show optionality in consistently producing the progressive in appropriate environments. The study considers a permanent L2 deficit arising from L1-L2 parametric differences as a potential source of difficulty in acquiring the target-like interpretations associated with the two forms.

Contents:

Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage / Heather Goad and Lydia White

Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use / Neal Snape

Successful features: verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an organic grammar approach / Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten

Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language: evidence from wh-words used as universal quantifiers in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Chinese / Boping Yuan

Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-speaking learners / Lin Jiang

Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus / Cristóbal Lozano

Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in Spanish and Greek L2 grammars / Teresa Parodi

Aspect and the interpretation of motion verbs in L2 Greek / Ianthi Maria Tsimpli and Despina Papadopoulou

Associating meaning to form in advanced L2 speakers: an investigation into the acquisition of the English present simple and present progressive / Sarah Ann Liszka.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612104848

9781282104846

1282104845

9789027289995

9027289999

OCLC:

316803957