Universal Grammar and the interpretation of reflexives in a second language  

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Thomas, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 67 no. 2 (Jun. 1991), page 211-239.
Fulltext: UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR AND THE INTERPRETATION.pdf (583.74KB)

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This article addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a foreign or second language (L2). I investigate the interpretation of English renexive pronouns by native speakers of Japanese and of Spanish. and the interpretation of the Japanese renexive zibun by native speakers of English and of Chinese. The data suggest that L2 learners observe constraints defined by universal grammar. conslo'aints which they could not have derived solely from inspection of the input data. nor from the treatment of ar,aphors in their native language. Thus these results support the proposal that adult learners have access to universal grammar. *

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