Second Language Acquisition of Reflexives Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2912422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boping Yuan (0000-0002-2920-079X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 539-545 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.1994.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2067080027 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 8 |
Quite a few researchers have used data on the acquisition of English reflexives by native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean as evidence for the claim that Universal Grammar (UG) is available to L2 learners and parameter resetting is possible in second language acquisition (SLA; cf. Finer & Broselow 1986, Finer 1990, 1991, Hirakawa 1990, Thomas 1989, 1991). In this discussion note, I will show that the acquisition of English reflexives by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean learners is not a valid test for parameter resetting in SLA, because English reflexives share the same setting as phrasal reflexives in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and it is therefore very likely that no parameter resetting is involved in the acquisition of English reflexives by the learners
Cognitive science · Grammar · Linguistics · Second-language acquisition · Subject (documents) · Universal Grammar · World Wide Web · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Re-examining second language acquisition of English reflexives
Methodological problems related to research on L2 Norwegian anaphors
The nature of interlanguage
A referential/quantified asymmetry in the second language acquisition of English reflexives by Chinese-speaking learners
Language acquisition without Universal Grammar
The Relationship Between Oral Fluency and Conversational Self-Repair Among L2 Chinese Learners
The effect of computational complexity on L1 transfer
Knowledge of language
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory
Lectures on Government and Binding
Chinese reflexives
Modularity and lexical parameterization in the adult grammar
Remarks on the reflexive in Chinese
Universal Grammar and the Interpretation of Reflexives in a Second Language
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |