New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dal Pozzo, Lena

Series:

Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna

Language:

Italian

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (152 p.)

Other Title:

New information subjects in L2 acquisition

Place of Publication:

Florence Firenze University Press 2015

Language Note:

Italian

Summary:

Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.