No Evidence of L1 Path Encoding Strategies in the L2 in Advanced Bulgarian Speakers of Norwegian

Vulchanova, Mila; Martinez, Liliana; Eshuis, Rik; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet

doi:10.1080/13875868.2012.658931

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“…The gerund is used more frequently than in native French productions with Achievements in Lev2, but rarely with Activity predicates at both levels. More generally, our learner data indicate that the impact of the L1 on acquisition gradually diminishes with increasing proficiency in the target language, as also shown by other studies (Cadierno & Ruiz 2006;Cadierno 2008;Navarro & Nicoladis 2005;Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Eshuis, Martinez & Listhaug 2012). However, in order to reach a more native-like level in French, the distribution of semantic information in the utterance still requires conceptual reorganisation.…”

Section: Implications For the Acquisition Of L2 Frenchsupporting

confidence: 87%

Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Demagny¹

2015

LIA

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This paper explores the expression of temporal boundaries in narrative discourse drawing on cartoon-elicited productions which narrate caused and/or voluntary motion events involving four types of paths. We hypothesise that the way speakers express temporal boundaries depends on the “framing” of their first language (Talmy 2000). We therefore examine productions by speakers of L1 French (V-framed language), L1 English (S-framed) and English learners of L2 French at three levels of proficiency. Productions may include aSetting sectionand aMain event. Findings show that each speaker group has its own mode of expressing temporal and spatial boundaries. The choice in L1 French depends on Path type, but not in L1 English. English learners of L2 French pattern more like L1 French speakers for verbal morphology, but their expression of space is nearly similar to their L1 English. The discussion highlights implications of this linguistic framing type for L2 acquisition.

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Section: Implications For the Acquisition Of L2 Frenchsupporting

confidence: 87%

Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Demagny¹

2015

LIA

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“…Research has mainly focused on answering the question of whether L2 learners can actually acquire the L2 thinking for speaking patterns and many studies have dealt with cross-linguistic research in motion events, such as Athanasopoulos, Damjanovic, Burnand, and Bylund (2015), Brown and Gullberg (2010, Bylund (2009), Bylund and Athanasopoulous (2015), Bylund andJarvis (2011), Cadierno (2004), Cadierno and Ruiz (2006), Daller, TreffersDaller, and Furman (2010), Filipović (2011), Flecken, Carroll, Weimar, andvon Stutterheim (2015), Hendriks and Hickmann (2015), Hijazo-Gascón (2011), Pavlenko and Volynsky (2015), Stam (2010Stam ( , 2015, Tomczak and Ewert (2015), Vulchanova, Martínez, Eshuis, and Listhaug (2012), and Wu (2011).…”

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confidence: 98%

Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of boundary crossing events in L2 acquisition

Alonso¹

2016

RCL

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This paper analyses the interpretation of boundary-crossing events in second language acquisition (SLA) to determine whether L2 learners are able to select the target-like option for the interpretation of motion events or whether, on the contrary, their choice reflects cross-linguistic influence (CLI) of their L1. The two groups participating in the study -thirty Spanish learners of L2 English and sixteen English first language (L1) speakers -were subjected to an experiment involving an interpretation task with L2 boundary-crossing events pictures. Findings indicate that Spanish L2 learners selected three possible constructions (manner verb + path satellite, path in verb + manner in satellite and a combination of both) in clear contrast to English L1 speakers who only selected one construction (manner verb + path satellite). CLI has also been found to regulate the type of boundary-crossing event selected, primarily in cases of motion INTO a bounded space in the horizontal axis.

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“…Some studies addressed cases in which the L1 was more variable in structure and/or lexicon than the L2 (Brown, 2015;Brown & Gullberg, 2013;Cadierno & Ruiz, 2006;Cook 2015;Dimitrova-Vulchanova et al, 2012;Iakovleva, 2012;Iakovleva & Hickmann, 2012;Pavlenko & Volynsky, 2015). They reported subtle or no L1 transfer in learners' data.…”

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The Expression of Upward Motion by Russian Speakers Acquiring French or English as a Foreign Language

Iakovleva

Gras

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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Research on multilingual acquisition has investigated various combinations of languages to identify the factors determining how learners express motion. Our research examines the semantics of motion expression in learners whose first language (L1) exhibits more variation than their foreign language (L2/L3). The present study compares upward motion expression in L1Russian instructed learners of L2English and L3French at an elementary level of proficiency. Drawing on second language acquisition (SLA) scenarios reported in previous research literature, we examine the extent to which the learners approximate target patterns. L2/L3 users and L1 control groups orally described animated clips (Hendriks & Hickmann, 2011) showing animals performing voluntary upward motion. Results show that, despite the use of neutral generics, L3French learners successfully approximated a verb‐framed pattern typical of L1French. L3French learners also showed the emergence of additional target motion components. L2English learners heavily relied on generic neutral verbs, which were used only occasionally by L1 speakers of English and never by L1 speakers of Russian. We argue that the learners’ approximation of a target system depends on the degree of overlap between generic means of motion expression available in a target language and its typical target means of motion expression.

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No Evidence of L1 Path Encoding Strategies in the L2 in Advanced Bulgarian Speakers of Norwegian

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of boundary crossing events in L2 acquisition

The Expression of Upward Motion by Russian Speakers Acquiring French or English as a Foreign Language

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