Bonnie D Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie D Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie D |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8645-6938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Resumptive pronouns facilitate processing of long-distance relative clause dependencies in second language English
This study provides evidence that resumptive pronouns (RPs) can facilitate the processing of long-distance subject relative clause (RC) dependencies during second language (L2) sentence comprehension, even where they are disallowed in both the first language (L1) and the target language. A test group of 29 L1-Korean L2 learners (L2ers) of English and a control group of 25 native English speakers completed an online self-paced reading task (SPRT) …
Making models, making predictions
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The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states
This paper offers an overview of current models of third language (L 3 ) acquisition, classifying each as a Wholesale Transfer model or as a Piecemeal Transfer model. We discuss what we consider to be some conceptual and empirical problems for the Piecemeal Transfer approaches and then discuss some advantages we see in Wholesale Transfer. Next, we home in on Wholesale Transfer models, arguing that one of them in particular seems to us to be the m…
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’
In her keynote article advocating the Linguistic Proximity Model for third language (L3) acquisition, Westergaard (2021) presents several arguments against ‘copying and restructuring’ in nonnative language acquisition, mechanisms central to Schwartz and Sprouse’s (1996) Full Transfer/Full Access model of second language (L2) acquisition. In this commentary, we seek to counter her arguments and also show that the results of a large body of studies…
Learnability in the acquisition of the English tough construction by L1-Korean adult and child L2 learners
In the English tough construction (TC), knowledge of tough movement is necessary for target performance (the object-interpretation only; e.g. John i is easy to see e i ). The acquisition of the English TC raises a learnability problem for first-language (L1) Korean learners of English as a second language (L2): (1) Korean has no tough movement; (2) no input dictates that the ‘subject interpretation’ is disallowed in the English TC; and (3) no cla…
Case in Heritage Korean
In a series of five experiments with 31 Korean heritage children, we show that knowledge of case and the ability to use it must be evaluated with careful attention to multiple factors that can influence access to morphological information in the course of comprehension and production. The first two experiments, which compared the canonical SOV pattern with the non-canonical OSV pattern, employed picture-selection comprehension tasks to assess kno…
Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus
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Parsing up the Interface Hypothesis
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Paths of development in L1 and L2 acquisition
On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German nominals
Our understanding of how adults acquire grammar has to date been mainly based on investigations of clause structure and the morphosyntax of verbs. The development of nominals, however, has so far not been investigated at the same level of detail. Against this background, the purpose of the present study is to provide an in-depth description of the L2 acquisition of nominals in German and to assess the results in regard to two general research iss…
The second language instinct
On the basis of the Basic Variety
The goal of this essay is to consider, from a generativist acquisition standpoint, the interplay between source language and target language in relation to two of the central points in the Klein and Perdue article. The first point concerns the stance Klein and Perdue take towards L2 data. The authors argue that the analysis of the target language should not be used as the model for analyzing interlanguage data,and I agree. I add,however, that the…
Feature-marking in the L2 development of deverbal compounds
This study focuses on the development of complex word formation in L2 acquisition. We examine experimentally elicited data on English deverbal synthetic compounding (such as toe-painter ) by native Spanish speakers and conclude that: (a) development proceeds in stages which clearly reflect UG-constrained L1 influence; (b) nontargetlike productions (e.g. painter-toes ) show attempts to spell out the grammatical features associated with functional …
The Verb Always Leaves IP in V2 Clauses
The verb-second (V2) phenomenon, as it is found in the Germanic languages, has been the focus of much attention within recent syntactic research. In most of the literature on V2 (e.g., den Besten 1977, 1989; Thiersch 1978; Koopman 1984; Holmberg 1986; Platzack 1986a, 1986b, 1987; Taraldsen 1986a; Schwartz and Vikner 1989; Tomaselli 1990a, 1990b; Roberts 1993; and Vikner 1994c), it is assumed that the verb in all V2 clauses has moved to a head pos…
What is the 'L2 initial state
L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model
This article is a defence of the Full Transfer/Full Access (FT/FA) model. FT/FA hypothesizes that the initial state of L2 acquisition is the final state of L1 acquisition (Full Transfer) and that failure to assign a representation to input data will force subsequent restructurings, drawing from options of UG (Full Access). We illustrate the FT/FA model by reviewing our analysis of the developmental Turkish-German Interlanguage data of Schwartz an…
Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of the 'initial state' of grammatical knowledge: For native language, the important controversy is that between the Continuity approach, which holds that …
Word Order and Nominative Case in Non-Native Language Acquisition
On Explicit and Negative Data Effecting and Affecting Competence and Linguistic Behavior
Psychologically speaking, all linguistic behavior is the overt manifestation of some type of underlying knowledge that is represented in the mind/brain of an individual. Exposure to linguistic data is necessary for growth of the system of knowledge. On the basis of only overt linguistic behavior, how can we ascertain whether the native and nonnative knowledge systems that people have are of distinct or similar types? Is there a (necessary) relati…
L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model
This article is a defence of the Full Transfer/Full Access (FT/FA) model. FT/FA hypothesizes that the initial state of L2 acquisition is the final state of L1 acquisition (Full Transfer) and that failure to assign a representation to input data will force subsequent restructurings, drawing from options of UG (Full Access). We illustrate the FT/FA model by reviewing our analysis of the developmental Turkish-German Interlanguage data of Schwartz an…
The second language instinct
On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German nominals
Our understanding of how adults acquire grammar has to date been mainly based on investigations of clause structure and the morphosyntax of verbs. The development of nominals, however, has so far not been investigated at the same level of detail. Against this background, the purpose of the present study is to provide an in-depth description of the L2 acquisition of nominals in German and to assess the results in regard to two general research iss…
Feature-marking in the L2 development of deverbal compounds
This study focuses on the development of complex word formation in L2 acquisition. We examine experimentally elicited data on English deverbal synthetic compounding (such as toe-painter ) by native Spanish speakers and conclude that: (a) development proceeds in stages which clearly reflect UG-constrained L1 influence; (b) nontargetlike productions (e.g. painter-toes ) show attempts to spell out the grammatical features associated with functional …
What is the 'L2 initial state
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’
In her keynote article advocating the Linguistic Proximity Model for third language (L3) acquisition, Westergaard (2021) presents several arguments against ‘copying and restructuring’ in nonnative language acquisition, mechanisms central to Schwartz and Sprouse’s (1996) Full Transfer/Full Access model of second language (L2) acquisition. In this commentary, we seek to counter her arguments and also show that the results of a large body of studies…
On the basis of the Basic Variety
The goal of this essay is to consider, from a generativist acquisition standpoint, the interplay between source language and target language in relation to two of the central points in the Klein and Perdue article. The first point concerns the stance Klein and Perdue take towards L2 data. The authors argue that the analysis of the target language should not be used as the model for analyzing interlanguage data,and I agree. I add,however, that the…
On Explicit and Negative Data Effecting and Affecting Competence and Linguistic Behavior
Psychologically speaking, all linguistic behavior is the overt manifestation of some type of underlying knowledge that is represented in the mind/brain of an individual. Exposure to linguistic data is necessary for growth of the system of knowledge. On the basis of only overt linguistic behavior, how can we ascertain whether the native and nonnative knowledge systems that people have are of distinct or similar types? Is there a (necessary) relati…
Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of the 'initial state' of grammatical knowledge: For native language, the important controversy is that between the Continuity approach, which holds that …
Word Order and Nominative Case in Non-Native Language Acquisition
The Verb Always Leaves IP in V2 Clauses
The verb-second (V2) phenomenon, as it is found in the Germanic languages, has been the focus of much attention within recent syntactic research. In most of the literature on V2 (e.g., den Besten 1977, 1989; Thiersch 1978; Koopman 1984; Holmberg 1986; Platzack 1986a, 1986b, 1987; Taraldsen 1986a; Schwartz and Vikner 1989; Tomaselli 1990a, 1990b; Roberts 1993; and Vikner 1994c), it is assumed that the verb in all V2 clauses has moved to a head pos…
What is the 'L2 initial state
L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model
This article is a defence of the Full Transfer/Full Access (FT/FA) model. FT/FA hypothesizes that the initial state of L2 acquisition is the final state of L1 acquisition (Full Transfer) and that failure to assign a representation to input data will force subsequent restructurings, drawing from options of UG (Full Access). We illustrate the FT/FA model by reviewing our analysis of the developmental Turkish-German Interlanguage data of Schwartz an…
On the basis of the Basic Variety
The goal of this essay is to consider, from a generativist acquisition standpoint, the interplay between source language and target language in relation to two of the central points in the Klein and Perdue article. The first point concerns the stance Klein and Perdue take towards L2 data. The authors argue that the analysis of the target language should not be used as the model for analyzing interlanguage data,and I agree. I add,however, that the…
Feature-marking in the L2 development of deverbal compounds
This study focuses on the development of complex word formation in L2 acquisition. We examine experimentally elicited data on English deverbal synthetic compounding (such as toe-painter ) by native Spanish speakers and conclude that: (a) development proceeds in stages which clearly reflect UG-constrained L1 influence; (b) nontargetlike productions (e.g. painter-toes ) show attempts to spell out the grammatical features associated with functional …
The second language instinct
On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German nominals
Our understanding of how adults acquire grammar has to date been mainly based on investigations of clause structure and the morphosyntax of verbs. The development of nominals, however, has so far not been investigated at the same level of detail. Against this background, the purpose of the present study is to provide an in-depth description of the L2 acquisition of nominals in German and to assess the results in regard to two general research iss…
Paths of development in L1 and L2 acquisition
Parsing up the Interface Hypothesis
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Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Case in Heritage Korean
In a series of five experiments with 31 Korean heritage children, we show that knowledge of case and the ability to use it must be evaluated with careful attention to multiple factors that can influence access to morphological information in the course of comprehension and production. The first two experiments, which compared the canonical SOV pattern with the non-canonical OSV pattern, employed picture-selection comprehension tasks to assess kno…
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’
In her keynote article advocating the Linguistic Proximity Model for third language (L3) acquisition, Westergaard (2021) presents several arguments against ‘copying and restructuring’ in nonnative language acquisition, mechanisms central to Schwartz and Sprouse’s (1996) Full Transfer/Full Access model of second language (L2) acquisition. In this commentary, we seek to counter her arguments and also show that the results of a large body of studies…
Learnability in the acquisition of the English tough construction by L1-Korean adult and child L2 learners
In the English tough construction (TC), knowledge of tough movement is necessary for target performance (the object-interpretation only; e.g. John i is easy to see e i ). The acquisition of the English TC raises a learnability problem for first-language (L1) Korean learners of English as a second language (L2): (1) Korean has no tough movement; (2) no input dictates that the ‘subject interpretation’ is disallowed in the English TC; and (3) no cla…
Resumptive pronouns facilitate processing of long-distance relative clause dependencies in second language English
This study provides evidence that resumptive pronouns (RPs) can facilitate the processing of long-distance subject relative clause (RC) dependencies during second language (L2) sentence comprehension, even where they are disallowed in both the first language (L1) and the target language. A test group of 29 L1-Korean L2 learners (L2ers) of English and a control group of 25 native English speakers completed an online self-paced reading task (SPRT) …
Making models, making predictions
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The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states
This paper offers an overview of current models of third language (L 3 ) acquisition, classifying each as a Wholesale Transfer model or as a Piecemeal Transfer model. We discuss what we consider to be some conceptual and empirical problems for the Piecemeal Transfer approaches and then discuss some advantages we see in Wholesale Transfer. Next, we home in on Wholesale Transfer models, arguing that one of them in particular seems to us to be the m…
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