The Status of a Nonparametrized Principle in the L2 Initial State  

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Kanno, Kazue

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 5 no. 4 (1996), page 317-384.
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In this article, I report an experimental study that examines the role that Universal Grammar (UG) plays in the early stages of the acquisition of Japanese as a second language (L2) by adult learners. The study addresses the issue of whether a non- parametrized principle of UG that is instantiated in the first language (L1) is "active enough" in the early stages of L2 learning to apply to phenomena for which there are no counterparts in the L1. The phenomenon investigated here involves case particle deletion in Japanese. The nominative case and accusative case contrast in terms of their omissibility-the latter can be freely dropped, whereas the former cannot. This contrast is regulated by the Empty Category Principle-a principle that exists in essentially the same form in English but that applies to a very different set of phenomena in that language. Not only did the L2 learners exhibit a statistically significant difference in the deletability of the nominative and the accusative cases, consistent with the UG principle, their performance was not significantly different from that of a native speaker control group. The results point toward the conclusion that UG is operative in second-language acquisition and that nonparametrized prin- ciples are active enough to apply to an entirely new phenomenon.

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