The Interpretation of Quantification at a Distance in English-French Interlanguage: Domain Specificity and Second-Language Acquisition  

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Thyre, Rachel ; Dekydtspotter, Laurent ; Sprouse, A. Rex

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 8 no. 4 (2000), page 265-320.
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In this article, we report results of an interpretive task showing that both native speakers of French and English-speaking classroom learners of French exhibit knowledge of the event sensitivity associated with quantification at a distance (QAD). We argue that such knowledge seems reliably acquirable only if both first- language (LI) and second-language (L2) acquisition are subject to domain-specific constraints. We consider two sources for such domain-specific knowledge: the na- tive grammar and Universal Grammar. We also consider the acquisition of the inter- pretive properties of QAD under domain-general learning in which syntax is a categorial extension of interpretive operations to linguistic categories. Without syn- tax-specific computational principles restricting the application of such operations, it appears that, given the nature of the input, domain-general assumptions do not guarantee that the QAD word order maps to the interpretation it actually receives. We argue that in both LI and L2 acquisition of French, the interpretation ofQAD is constrained by (on the most parsimonious account, the same) domain-specific prin- ciples because in both cases the input the language acquirer receives grossly under- determines the grammatical knowledge attained. This suggests that syntax-specific computational principles must restrict the hypothesis space.

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