Transitivity alternations and sequence learning: Insights from L2 Spanish production data  

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Zyzik, Eve C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST Th.2001-) vol. 28 no. 3 (Sep. 2006), page 449-485.
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This article examines alternating verbs (such as quemar(se) "to burn") in second language (L2) Spanish by considering the learnability problem from a sequence learning perspective (N. Ellis, 1996, 2002). In Spanish, verbs of the alternating class are obligatorily marked with the clitic se in their intransitive form. Errors of omission among English-Speaking learners, who transfer zero-derived morphology from their native language, have been previously documented (Montrul, 2000). This study also examines a different kind of error-overgeneralization of se to transitive event scenes-that is hypothesized to result from chunking se with particular lexical items. The results of a picture description task reveal that learners frequently make this type of over-generalization error, but that they are able to recover from it at more advanced levels of proficiency. These findings suggest that the acquisition of L2 morphosyntax is shaped by learners' familiarity with individual lexical items and the sequences in which they tend to appear.

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