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Rankin, Tom – Second Language Research, 2023
Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides a framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar competition as the model requires a marriage of quantitative properties of the input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational model of grammar competition is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Stepanov, Arthur; Andreetta, Sara; Stateva, Penka; Zawiszewski, Adam; Laka, Itziar – Second Language Research, 2020
This study investigates the processing of long-distance syntactic dependencies by native speakers of Slovenian (L1) who are advanced learners of Italian as a second language (L2), compared with monolingual Italian speakers. Using a self-paced reading task, we compare sensitivity of the early-acquired L2 learners to syntactic anomalies in their L2…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Italian, Slavic Languages
L2 Distribution of Chinese Connectives: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of a Discourse Grammar
Lu, Yuan – Second Language Research, 2019
This study investigated second language distribution of Chinese connectives by tallying responses on a mini-discourse completion test taken by English-speaking learners with different language learning backgrounds and at different proficiency levels. The results showed that an underuse pattern underlay practically all Chinese connectives as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Cognitive Ability

Eubank, Lynn – Second Language Research, 1994
Argues that the late acquisition of the third-person singular agreement affix /-s/ in second-language learners of English is the result of a syntactic configuration that makes the ending appear ungrammatical to the learner of English while allowing agreement inflection to appear when the target language has a more robust agreement model, as in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
Haznedar, Belma – Second Language Research, 2007
The aim of this article is two-fold: to test the Aspect Hypothesis, according to which the early use of tense-aspect morphology patterns by semantic/aspectual features of verbs, and Tense is initially defective (e.g. Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Bloom et al., 1980; Andersen and Shirai, 1994; 1996; Robison, 1995; Shirai and Andersen, 1995;…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Child Language
Lozano, Cristobal – Second Language Research, 2006
Recent unrelated studies reveal what appears to be a common acquisitional pattern in second language acquisition (SLA). While some findings show that advanced learners can indeed achieve convergent, native-like competence with formal syntactic properties (even when these are underdetermined by the input), other findings suggest that they can…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers

Schwartz, Bonnie D.; Gubala-Ryzak, Magda – Second Language Research, 1992
A reassessment of the role of negative evidence in nonnative language acquisition argues that the grammar-building process cannot make use of negative evidence to restructure interlanguage grammars, and that second-language learners do not unlearn verb movement but extend the pattern with which they are already familiar. (46 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, English, French, Grammar

Clahsen, Harald; Muysken, Pieter – Second Language Research, 1989
Suggests that differences between first- and second-language learners are due to principles of universal grammar (UG) that guide first language (L1), but not second language (L2) acquisition. This view can be reconciled with the idea that L2 learners can use UG principles to some extent in evaluating target sentences. (49 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: German, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Sasaki, Yoshinori – Second Language Research, 1997
A study investigated differences in sentence interpretation, with case marking and lexical-semantic cues systematically manipulated, of 20 native English-speaking learners of Japanese (JFLs) (10 beginners, 10 intermediate) and 10 native Japanese-speaking learners of English. Results show: greater animacy effect with the verb "see" than "eat";…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Japanese

Jordens, Peter – Second Language Research, 1988
Argues that children's OV utterances cannot be related transformationally to VO utterances because children initially acquire OV and VO with different sets of verbs, and also argues that L2 acquisition data can be accounted for within a model of L1 structural transfer, without requiring adult learner access to Universal Grammar. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), German