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| Autor/in | Özçelik, Öner |
|---|---|
| Titel | Universal Grammar and Second Language Phonology: Full Transfer/Prevalent Access in the L2 Acquisition of Turkish "Stress" by English and French Speakers |
| Quelle | In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 25 (2018) 3, S.231-267 (37 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Özçelik, Öner) |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1048-9223 |
| DOI | 10.1080/10489223.2017.1293672 |
| Schlagwörter | Language Universals; Grammar; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; French; Turkish; Phonology; Transfer of Training; English; Native Language; Age Differences; Foreign Countries; Phonemes; Statistical Analysis; Language Research; Canada; United States; France |
| Abstract | This article explores the role of transfer and Universal Grammar (UG) in second language (L2) phonology by investigating the L2 acquisition of stress/prominence in footless languages, such as Turkish and French, which have fixed word- and phrase-final prominence respectively. It is proposed that once the prosodic constituent Foot is projected in a footed first language (L1), such as English, it is impossible to expunge it from the grammar in learning a footless L2. Learners in this condition will, instead, be restricted to resetting parameters that act on the Foot (e.g. trochaic/iambic, iterative/non-iterative, weight-sensitive/weight-insensitive). In order to investigate these predictions, a semi-controlled production experiment was conducted with English- and French-speaking learners of L2 Turkish, of various proficiency levels. The results largely confirm our predictions. None of the English-speaking subjects were able to rid their grammar of the Foot. They were, however, able to make various UG-constrained changes to their grammar, such as resetting Extrametricality from Yes to No, and later, Foot-Type from Trochaic to Iambic, thereby having increasingly more word types with word-final (but footed) stress. French-speaking learners, on the other hand, produced target-like footless outputs from the beginning, with word-final prominence. The findings provide strong evidence for UG-based theories of L2 acquisition: (i) interlanguage grammars, even when non-targetlike, are 'possible' grammars, paralleling other natural languages, (ii) options ruled out by UG, such as weight-insensitive iambs, are not employed, despite such a stage being cognitively most reasonable, and (iii) grammar change is brought along on a parameter-by-parameter basis, instead of being reflective of frequency. (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2020/1/01 |
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