Input and age effects: Quo vadis?

Weerman, Fred

doi:10.1075/lab.4.3.15wee

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“…The programme sketched here opens several avenues for future research. For one, our adoption of the Interpretability Hypothesis makes predictions for several other grammatical phenomena, including (but not limited to) subject expression and Case; lexically specified gender is a further relevant area (Tsimpli 2014;Weerman 2014). For another, it ought to be instructive to compare the Interpretability Hypothesis with other theories of syntactic L2difficulty and see how each fares in the diachronic domain.…”

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Complexity as L2-difficulty: Implications for syntactic change

Walkden

Breitbarth²

2019

Theoretical Linguistics

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Recent work has cast doubt on the idea that all languages are equally complex; however, the notion of syntactic complexity remains underexplored. Taking complexity to equate to difficulty of acquisition for late L2 acquirers, we propose an operationalization of syntactic complexity in terms of uninterpretable features. Trudgill’s sociolinguistic typology predicts that sociohistorical situations involving substantial late L2 acquisition should be conducive to simplification, i.e. loss of such features. We sketch a programme for investigating this prediction. In particular, we suggest that the loss of bipartite negation in the history of Low German and other languages indicates that it may be on the right track.

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