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Effects of L1 Morphological Type on L2 Morphological Awareness
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Wu, Zhaohong; Juffs, Alan – Second Language Research, 2022
Previous studies on bilingual children have shown a significant correlation between first language (L1) and second language (L2) morphological awareness and a unique contribution of morphological awareness in one language to reading performance in the other language, suggesting cross-linguistic influence. However, few studies have compared…
Descriptors: Native Language, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation
Emergent Knowledge of a Universal Phonological Principle in the L2 Acquisition of Vowel Harmony in Turkish: A "Four"-Fold Poverty of the Stimulus in L2 Acquisition
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Özçelik, Öner; Sprouse, Rex A. – Second Language Research, 2017
A significant body of theoretically motivated research has addressed the role of Universal Grammar (UG) in the nonnative acquisition of morphosyntax and properties of the syntax-semantics interface, but very little research has addressed the role of phonological principles of UG in nonnative language acquisition. Turkish has a regular and…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Turkish, Phonology, Second Language Learning
First-Language Constrained Variability in the Second-Language Acquisition of Argument-Structure-Changing Morphology with Causative Verbs.
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Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2001
Presents three related experiments on the acquisition of two classes of causative verbs: physical change of state verbs with agentive subjects and psychological change of state verbs with experiencer objects in English, Spanish, and Turkish as second languages by speakers whose native languages are English, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese.…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Japanese, Language Acquisition