The acquisition of articles in English is notoriously difficult for
second language (L2) learners of languages without articles. The
current thesis extends this work on L2 English by investigating
speakers whose L1s are Japanese and Spanish. Japanese is an
article-less language, while Spanish marks definiteness and plural,
like English. Specifically, the investigation tests the success of
the existing hypotheses in accounting for the performance of these
speakers in a series of experimental tasks. Additionally it
examines whether a nominal mapping parameter proposed by Chierchia
(1998), which determines whether bare NPs in a language are
argumental, predicative or of both types, provides insight into L2
learners knowledge of the English nominal domain. Overall, the
Spanish L2 learners behaved much more like the native speakers on
all the tasks. It is argued that the findings are consistent with
the Full Transfer/Partial Access (Hawkins & Chan 1997) and Full
Transfer/Full Access (Schwartz & Sprouse 1994, 1996)
hypotheses.
General
Imprint: |
VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
October 2008 |
First published: |
October 2008 |
Authors: |
Neal Snape
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-639-09288-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
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LSN: |
3-639-09288-0 |
Barcode: |
9783639092882 |
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