Do second language learners acquire restrictive relative clauses on the basis of relational or configurational  

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Hawkins, Roger

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Second Language Research (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST) vol. 5 no. 2 (Dec. 1989), page 156-188.
Topik: typologically determined noun phrase accessibility hierarchy for relativisation (AH).
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Much of the work on the second language acquisition of restrictive relative clauses has made reference to the similarities between learners' order of difficulty and Keenan and Comrie's (1977) typologically determined noun phrase accessibility hierarchy for relativisation (AH). There has been little consideration, however, of whether this 'theory of markedness' (for that is the implication of citing the AH in the context of second language learning) actually determines the way that second language learners develop rules for restrictive relative clauses. The present study examines the way that learners of L2 French construct rules for French relativiser morphology from this perspective. It is found that there is no evidence to support the view that learners make use of a theory of markedness like the AH in constructing such rules. Rather, learners appear to construct rules on the basis of the linear ordering of the constituents of restrictive relative clauses in surface configurations. From the evidence it is suggested that 'markedness' in the development of L2 restrictive relative clauses is not a feature of the grammatical component of learners' linguistic knowledge, but is a feature of their L2 processing capacity.

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