The acquisition of multiple wh-questions by high proficiency non-native speakers of English  

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Yoshinaga, Naoko ; Bley-Vroman, Robert W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Second Language Research (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST) vol. 16 no. 1 (Jan. 2000), page 3 - 26.
Fulltext: 2000.16.1.3-26.pdf (119.77KB)

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This paper investigates the knowledge of multiple wh-questions such ~ Who ate what? by high-proficiency non-native speakers of English whose first language is Japanese. Japanese grammar is known to license a wider range of such questions than English -who came why, for example - although the precise theoretical account is not yet clear. Acceptability judgements were obtained on 6 different types of such questions. Acceptability of English examples was rated by native speakers of English, Japanese examples were judged by native speakers of Japanese, and the English examples were judged by high-proficiency Japanese speakers of English. The results for native speakers judging their own language were generally in accord with expectations. The high-level non- native speakers of English were significantly different from native speakers in their ratings of these sentences. However, the ratings were clearly not simply the result of transfer. The consequences of this finding for theories of Universal Grammar (UG) in second language acquisition (SLA) are discussed.

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