L2 Acquisition as a process of Creolization

Liceras, Juana M.; Martínez, Capelo; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío; Perales, Susana Borraz; Fuertes, Raquel Fernández

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“…For the No Parameter Resetting Hypothesis the only available parameter settings are those of the L1, meaning that learners' representations for L2 data need to be accommodated within the L1 grammar with ad hoc local modifications (Liceras, 1997) or based on the L1 grammar but using UG constraints (Tsimpli & Roussou, 1991). Sharing this last proposal, Hawkings and Chan (1997) The Full Access Hypothesis, which White (2003) refers to as Full Access Without Transfer, was proposed by Epstein, Flynn and Martohardjono (1998).…”

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Wh in situ and topic-subject constructions in brazilian portuguese acquisition as a second language

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Metalinguistic Filters Within the Bilingual Language Faculty: A Study of Young English-Chinese Bilinguals

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2009

J Psycholinguist Res

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This study reports two metalinguistic parameters that constitute the schematic control of lateral inhibitory links between translation equivalents within the bilingual lexico-semantic system of Green's (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1:67-81, 1998a, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1:100-104, 1998b, The bilingualism reader, Routledge, London, 2007) inhibitory control (IC) model. Building on Green's postulation that the bilingual lexico-semantic system is controlled by a hierarchy of schemas under a supervisory attentional system, the bilingual unconsciously filters activated lemmas during fluent spontaneous codeswitching, such that lemmas that are semantico-syntactically versatile or morphosyntactically transparent are likely to reach a threshold of activation first while other lemmas are inhibited. To investigate the issue, we collected code-paired naturalistic and elicited data with a focus on code-switched determiner phrases from 140 Mandarin-English simultaneous bilinguals who were post-secondary students in Singapore. We found that the semantico-syntactic and morpho-syntactic dissimilarities between Mandarin and English activated both filters. As most Mandarin determiners are economical vis-à-vis their English counterparts, their lemmas were selected frequently while English lemmas were largely inhibited. It was also found that our participants preferred English nouns in filling the lexical category for their interpretable feature of number, a feature that is normally absent in Mandarin nouns.

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Second Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory in the 21st Century

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2010

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

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Syntactic theory has played a role in second language acquisition (SLA) research since the early 1980s, when the principles and parameters model of generative grammar was implemented. However, it was the so-called functional parameterization hypothesis together with the debate on whether second language learners activated new features or switched their value that led to detailed and in-depth analyses of the syntactic properties of many different nonnative grammars. In the last 10 years, with the minimalist program as background, these analyses have diverted more and more from looking at those syntactic properties that argued for or against the various versions of the UG-access versus non-UG-access debate (UG for Universal Grammar) and have more recently delved into the status of nonnative grammars in the cognitive science field. Thus, using features (i.e., gender, case, verb, and determiner) as the basic units and paying special attention to the quality of input as well as to processing principles and constraints, nonnative grammars have been compared to the language contact paradigms that underlie subsequent bilingualism, child SLA, creole formation, and diachronic change. Taking Chomsky's I-language/E-language construct as the framework, this article provides a review of these recent developments in SLA research.

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L2 Acquisition as a process of Creolization

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Wh in situ and topic-subject constructions in brazilian portuguese acquisition as a second language

Wh in situ and topic-subject constructions in brazilian portuguese acquisition as a second language

Metalinguistic Filters Within the Bilingual Language Faculty: A Study of Young English-Chinese Bilinguals

Second Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory in the 21st Century

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