Mental design and (second) language epistemology
Adjectival restrictions of wh-quantifiers and tense in English-French interlanguage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11655644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurent Dekydtspotter (0000-0002-6375-1093, Indiana University, corresponding author), Rex A Sprouse (Indiana University) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-35 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Second language Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/026765830101700101 |
| OpenAlex | W2004502265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 22 |
This study addresses the issue of second language (L2) epistemology assuming Chomsky’s (1995) discussion of the place of Universal Grammar (UG) in mental design: i.e., the optimal solution to the mental design problem for language in the sense of Minimalist theory. Aspects of interpretation of continuous and discontinuous interrogatives of the form qui de AP (‘who (of) AP’) in first language and L2 acquisition appear to follow from principles of economy in mental design and language-dependent hypotheses. We argue that such knowledge is guaranteed to arise in the absence of relevant input only if a grammar is a realization of language-dependent hypotheses and basic principles of grammar, but crucially not if it consists of a set of (derivative) grammatical theorems not constrained by principles of optimal design
Emergent grammar · Generative grammar · Grammar · Interlanguage · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Present tense · Realization (probability · Second-language acquisition · Set (abstract data type · Theoretical linguistics · Universal Grammar · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
Why All Counter-Evidence to the Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition Is not Equal or Problematic
Knowledge of A/A'-dependencies on subject extraction with two types of infinitives in non-native Portuguese adult bilingualism
Acquiring the syntactic constraints on auxiliary change under restructuring in L2 Italian
L2 acquisition of definiteness in Japanese floating numeral quantifiers
Aspectual interpretation and mass/count knowledge in Chinese-English bilinguals
The logical problem of second language acquisition of argument structure
The acquisition of different types of definite noun phrases in L2-English
The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English
Pragmatic deficits with syntactic consequences
Interpretation of English multiple wh-questions by Japanese speakers
Second language acquisition at the interfaces
On the second language acquisition of Spanish reflexive passives and reflexive impersonals by French- and English-speaking adults
The Universal Parser and interlanguage
Is there a critical period for semantics
Input, triggering and poverty of the stimulus in the second language acquisition of Japanese passives
Recovery from first-language transfer
Learnability in the second language acquisition of semantics
Domain-wide or variable-dependent vulnerability of the semantics—syntax interface in L2 acquisition? Evidence from wh-words used as existential polarity words in L2 Chinese grammars
Interpreting definiteness in a second language without articles
Acquisition without evidence
Russian speakers’ L2 Chinese acquisition of wh -topicalization at the syntax–discourse interface
Emergent knowledge of a universal phonological principle in the L2 acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish
Straight on through to Universal Grammar
Language Form and Language Function
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Word Order and Nominative Case in Non-Native Language Acquisition
Direct Access to X’-Theory
Semantic analysis of wh-complements
Second language acquisition
Logic and Conversation
The View from building 20
Gradual development of L2 phrase structure
The acquisition of the syntax of negation in French and German
Semantics in Generative Grammar
The UG paradox in L2 acquisition
L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model
The "Pro-drop" Parameter in Adult Second Language Acquisition
The stability of UG principles in second-language acquisition
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |