"Tom Eats Slowly Cooked Eggs": Thematic-Verb Raising in L2 Knowledge  

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Eubank, Lynn ; Leek, Patricia ; Bischof, Janine ; Huffstutler, April ; West, Clint

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 6 no. 3 (1997), page 171-200.
Fulltext: 20011463.pdf (2.82MB)

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White (e.g., 1990/1991) and Schwartz (e.g., 1993) suggested that parametric values that determine verb raising transfer into initial second-language (L2) representations. However, reaction-time research by Eubank and Grace (1996) suggested that this type of transfer does not appear; rather, the value determining raising is radically underspecified, allowing raising to occur optionally. These findings are problematic, however, because reaction times require so much extrapolation. In this article, we employ a truth-value task to reexamine native-language (NL) transfer among Chinese-speaking L2 learners of English-that is, where neither NL nor mature L2 permits verb raising. Findings confirm largely the Eubank and Grace findings, indicating optionality effects. Discussion includes a comparison with the earlier findings of Eubank and Grace and analysis of developmental and transferbased explanations for the observed optionality effects. In the end, only an explanation involving an impairment to verbal features under 1° appears to be supported.

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