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Direct linkGoad, Heather; White, Lydia – Second Language Research, 2006
In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional categories or features that are absent in the first language (L1), suggesting that fossilization is inevitable. Instead, we support the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis, which argues that the ultimate…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage
