The acquisition of object movement in Dutch
L1 transfer and near-native grammars at the syntax–discourse interface
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11655967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liz Smeets (0000-0002-5285-6703, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 479-504 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-20 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0267658318782357 |
| OpenAlex | W2884320097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article investigates near-native grammars at the syntax–discourse interface by examining the second language (L2) acquisition of two different domains of object movement in Dutch, which exhibit syntax–discourse or syntax–semantics level properties. English and German near-native speakers of Dutch, where German but not English allows the same mapping strategies as Dutch in the phenomena under investigation, are tested on two felicity judgment tasks and a truth value judgment task. The results from the English participants show sensitivity to discourse information on the acceptability of non-canonical word orders, but only when the relevant discourse cues are sufficiently salient in the input. The acquisition of semantic effects on object movement was native-like for a large subset of the participants. The German group performed on target in all experiments. The results are partially in line with previous studies reporting L2 convergence at the syntax–discourse interface, but suggest that input effects should also be taken into account. Furthermore, the differences between the first language (L1) English and the L1 German group suggests that non-target performance at the syntax–discourse interface is not caused by general bilingual difficulties in integrating discourse information into syntax. The article elaborates on factors that contribute to (in)complete acquisition at the syntax–discourse interface
First language · German · Interface (matter · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Object (grammar · Programming language · Rule-based machine translation · Semantics (computer science · Syntax · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Dutch scrambling and the nature of discourse templates
Beyond the critical period
The syntax–discourse interface in near-native L2 acquisition
Contrast and movement to the German prefield
Syntactic Aspects of Topic and Comment
Between syntax and discourse
Linguistics and Philosophy
The left and right periphery in Dutch
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language
Syntactic features and reanalysis in near-native processing
Clitic-doubled left dislocation and focus fronting in L2 Spanish
Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian
Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects
Relative clause extraposition and prosody in German
The Projection of Arguments
What's Different in Second-Language Processing? Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity
Pinning down the concept of "interface" in bilingualism
Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development
A more careful look at the syntax-discourse interface
Second language acquisition at the interfaces
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |