Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language

Structural and Extralinguistic Aspects of Code-Switching: Evidence From Papiamentu-Dutch Auditory Sentence Matching

“…The stimuli for the auditory sentence matching task consisted of SVO sentences (e.g., The writer writes a letter ) in which switches were introduced between S and V, between V and O, or between S, V, and O. Twenty unique SVO sentences were constructed consisting of five words in sentences with a Dutch verb, and six words in sentences with a Papiamentu verb (cf. Verhagen, 2009 for sentence length in auditory SMTs) 3 . The lexical items in the stimuli could not be selected in standard psycholinguistic ways since corpora do not exist for Papiamentu against which to check for frequency, for example.…”

“…Roberts, 2012 ). Auditory SMTs have been used to study sentence processing in early second language users (Verhagen, 2009 ) as well as in bilingual sentence processing (Lipski, 2018 ).…”

Variable verb placement in second-language German and French: Evidence from production and elicited imitation of finite and nonfinite negated sentences

“…The educational background of the learners was low in general (9 years of schooling on average in the learners of German and 8 years in the learners of French). Participants’ use of morphosyntax clearly corresponds to a beginning stage of acquisition, as evidenced in particular by the presence of an important number of nonfinite utterances in the production data, as well as the near absence of other than present tense finite morphology and complex syntactic structures such as subordinate clauses (see also Klein & Perdue, 1997; Vainikka & Young-Scholten, 1994; Verhagen, 2009, who similarly observe that long-term residents can be at a low stage of proficiency). The current learner sample thus clearly represents a stage of proficiency that is of interest to theories of beginning L2 syntax.…”

“…The semispontaneous production data consisted of oral retellings of three picture stories developed by Verhagen (2005, 2009) and a short silent movie developed by Dimroth ( The Finite Story , Dimroth, 2006). The elicitation tools prompted the use of utterances in third person singular contexts and provided several contexts for eliciting negated utterances.…”

Native and Nonnative Interpretation of Pronominal Forms

“…Clahsen and Felser (2006) claim that, at least during online processing, L2 learners may have difficulties with computing structural representations and, as a consequence, may overrely on semantic and discourse-level cues. The learner varieties approach to L2 acquisition predicts that the acquisition of syntactic knowledge in a L2 may be particularly difficult and that L2 learners at least at early stages of acquisition would therefore be influenced by semantic and discourse-level factors to a larger degree than native speakers in production (Dimroth, Gretsch, Jordens, Perdue, & Starren, 2003; Klein & Perdue, 1997) as well as during online comprehension (Schimke, 2009; Verhagen, 2009).…”