The Role of L1 Phonology in L2 Morphological Production: L2 English Past Tense Production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers

Autor/inn/en	Amaro, Jennifer Cabrelli; Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Rothman, Jason
Titel	The Role of L1 Phonology in L2 Morphological Production: L2 English Past Tense Production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40 (2018) 3, S.503-527 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
Schlagwörter	Role; Native Language; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Morphemes; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Intonation; Suprasegmentals; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Phonology; Japanese; Spanish; Mandarin Chinese; Oral Language; Language Research; Transfer of Training; Contrastive Linguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Morphem; Morphology; Morphologie; Fonologie; Japaner; Japanisch; Spanisch; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Sprachforschung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik
Abstract	This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed for English past tense morphology, differences arise in L1 syntax (only Mandarin lacks syntactic past) and L1 prosodic structure (only Japanese has English-equivalent structure). Aggregate analyses indicate that an L1 English control group outperforms all L2 groups in oral suppliance of past tense morphology. Results therefore reveal that having the syntactic feature for past in the L1 does not translate into targetlike performance and that L1 phonological restrictions alone cannot fully explain nontargetlike performance. Considering previous and the current data sets, we argue that evidence from production of L2 English past tense cannot be used to adjudicate between representational deficit approaches and full access approaches, contrary to what has been argued previously. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01