The partial availability of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition: the 'failed functional features in hypothesis'  

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Hawkins, Roger ; Yuet-Hung, Chan (Cecilia)

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Second Language Research (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST) vol. 13 no. 3 (Jul. 1997), page 187-226.
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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/SLR/13 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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A number of studies in the research literature have proposed that Universal Grammar (UG) is partially available to adult second language learners. Attempts to provide a syntactic characterization of that partial availability have only recently begun to appear, however. In this article we will argue that speakers of Chinese (a language without wh-operator movement in overt syntax) learning second language English (a language with wh- operator movement in overt syntax) establish mental representations for English which involve pronominal binding rather than operator movement. It will be suggested that this divergence from native-speaker representations is an effect of the inaccessibility of features of functional categories in second language acquisition, what we will refer to as the 'failed functional features hypothesis'. Implications are drawn from the findings for the syntactic characterization of accessibility to UG more generally in second language acquisition.

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