Constructing interlanguage: building a composite matrix language

Jake, Janice L.

doi:10.1515/ling.1998.36.2.333

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“…IL is always the learner language which shows the surface forms of the intended TL, but it also contains abstract lexical structures from both the L1 and the TL (MyersScotton 1994;Wei 1996bWei , 2000aWei , 2000bJake 1998). Such lexical structures are called 'abstract' in the sense that they cannot be clearly observed at any surface level of IL production but at a deep level of the mental lexicon.…”

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“…Thus, the mental lexicon is defined as the speaker's internal representation of knowledge about the surface forms, that is, lemmas. It is assumed that lemmas are language-specific in the bilingual mental lexicon, and language-specific lemmas are in contact in IL production (Jake 1998;Wei 2001. 2.…”

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“…3. Abstract lexical structure is modular and can be split and recombined in novel, yet constrained ways in constructing the linguistic system underlying IL (Jake 1998). Parts of the abstract lexical structure from the learner's L1 lexical entries may influence the abstract lexical structure of incompletely acquired TL lexical entries in the developing IL, that is, each of the three levels of the lexical structure of IL may contain elements from the learner's L1 and/or the TL, resulting in a composite developing linguistic system.…”

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“…In other words, it must be sufficiently targetlike so as to contribute to the abstract lexical structure of the composite ML. Thus, it is possible to argue that all L1 influence is TL-based (Jake 1998;Kellerman 1986;Giacobbe 1992).…”

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“…The complete projection of the TL grammatical requirements "through the specification of all requisite grammatical features of the entries in the mental lexicon (i.e. lemmas)" (Jake 1998: 342) may never be achieved by second language learners. Consequently, a composite structure containing linguistic features of both the learner's L1 and the TL may result.…”

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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System

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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System This paper explores the nature of interlanguage (IL) as a developing system with a focus on the abstract lexical structure underlying IL construction. The developing system of IL is assumed to be ‘composite’ in that in second language acquisition (SLA) several linguistic systems are in contact, each of which may contribute different amounts to the developing system. The lexical structure is assumed to be ‘abstract’ in that the mental lexicon contains abstract elements called ‘lemmas’, which contain information about individual lexemes, and lemmas in the bilingual mental lexicon are language-specific and are in contact in IL production. Based on the research findings, it concludes that language transfer in IL production should be understood as lemma transfer of the learner's first language (L1) lexical structure at three abstract levels: lexical-conceptual structure, predicate-argument structure, and morphological realization patterns, and IL construction is driven by an incompletely acquired abstract lexical structure of a target language (TL) item.

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Constructing interlanguage: building a composite matrix language

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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System

The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System

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