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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
Relative Clauses in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: Typological Challenges and Processing Motivations
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Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Findings from a longitudinal study of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English pose a challenge to the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan & Comrie, 1977), which predicts that object relatives should not be acquired before subject relatives. In the children's Cantonese, object relatives emerged earlier than or…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Word Order, Language Acquisition