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Toward Second Language Acquisition - A Study of Null-Prep (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
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Toward Second Language Acquisition - A Study of Null-Prep (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 17
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This book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition
(SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform
linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers
new perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship
between first and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar
(UG), and the target language input. Specifically, examination of
the L2 development of pied-piping and preposition stranding in
English questions and relative clauses shows that the required
preposition is frequently omitted by learners who have demonstrated
accurate subcategorization knowledge of verbal complements in
related declarative constructions. The null-prep' data in the L2
grammar leads to an important cross-linguistic investigation of
this largely ignored syntactic phenomenon in the world's languages;
it also motivates exploration of the complex English input learners
receive as positive evidence. An analysis of null-prep, piping and
stranding is posited, including the relevant principles and
parameters of UG involved. Based on this linguistic analysis,
alternative explanations for the L2 phenomenon are offered,
representing challenges to UG and markedness-based accounts of
second language acquisition. Such challenges will be of interest to
linguists as well as to students, teachers, reseachers and scholars
interested in second language acquisition, particularly in its
relationship to UG.
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