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Evidence for the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis or Not?: Island Constraints Revisited

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Belikova, Alyona; White, Lydia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009

This article examines how changes in linguistic theory affect the debate between the fundamental difference hypothesis and the access-to-Universal Grammar (UG) approach to SLA. With a focus on subjacency (Chomsky, 1973), a principle of UG that places constraints on "wh"-movement and that has frequently been taken as a test case for verifying…

Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar

Testing the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis: L2 Adult, L2 Child, and L1 Child Comparisons in the Acquisition of Korean "Wh"-Constructions with Negative Polarity Items

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Song, Hyang Suk; Schwartz, Bonnie D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009

The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH; Bley-Vroman, 1989, 1990) contends that the nature of language in natives is fundamentally different from the nature of language in adult nonnatives. This study tests the FDH in two ways: (a) via second language (L2) poverty-of-the-stimulus (POS) problems (e.g., Schwartz & Sprouse, 2000) and (b) via a…

Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Word Order, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory

Paths of Processing Strategy Transfers in Learning Japanese and English as Foreign Languages: A Competition Model Approach.

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Sasaki, Yoshinori – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1994

A competition model experiment is reported that investigated the sentence-processing strategies of English-speaking learners of Japanese and Japanese-speaking learners of English. Results indicated a correlation between learners' proficiency in Japanese and case-marker dependency in Japanese strings. (Contains 23 references.) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Acquisition