The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument and structure-dependency in L2 users of English  

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Cook, Vivian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 41 no. 3 (2003), page 201-222.
Fulltext: 41_03_Cook.pdf (242.18KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/41 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Testing the principle of structure-dependency in second language acquisition means showing that L2 learners know structure-dependency in questions regardless of whether their L1 s have syntactic movement. A grammaticality judgment test examined relative clauses, questions with relative clauses and questions with structure-dependency violations with 140 mixed L2 learners of English and 35 native speakers. All L2 learner groups overwhelmingly rejected the ungrammatical sentences with structure-dependency violations, only 9 individuals scoring less than 5/6 correct. While groups with L1 s with movement (Finnish, Polish, Dutch) and those without (Japanese, Chinese, Arabic) differed significantly, these were variations within a high level of success. Structure dependency is therefore active in all L2 learners, with some residual effect from the L1: L2 users know something which they have not acquired from outside their own minds.

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