The status of functional categories in child second language acquisition:                 evidence from the acquisition of CP

Haznedar, Belma

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“…Recent work by Schwartz (2003), Haznedar (2003), Unsworth (2005) and others explicitly examines various morphosyntactic phenomena in child second language (L2) acquisition and raises important questions concerning issues such as age of first exposure and the influence of the children's other language (for an overview of the literature on child L2 acquisition, see Paradis, 2007).…”

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Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch

Cornips

Hulk

2008

Second Language Research

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The goal of this article is to examine the factors that are proposed in the literature to explain the success-failure in the child L2 (second language) acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch definite determiners. Focusing on four different groups of bilingual children, we discuss four external success factors put forward in the literature: (1) early age of onset, (2) lengthy and intensive input, (3) the quality of the input and (4) the role of the other language. We argue that the first two factors may indeed contribute to explaining the differences in success between the less and more successful bilingual children. However, the influence of the quality of the input in (standard) Dutch appears to be inconclusive, whereas the (structural) similarity of the gender systems in the two languages may reinforce the children's awareness of the grammatical gender category. Moreover, it appears that individual bilingualism vs. societal bilingualism, that is the sociolinguistic context in which Dutch is acquired, is not a factor for failure or success with respect to the acquisition of grammatical gender. In the final part of this article, we hypothesize that the important role of the input is related to a language internal factor, which distinguishes the Dutch gender system of the definite determiner from that of other languages, resulting in different acquisition paths.

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Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch

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2008

Second Language Research

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“…Haznedar, 2001;2003). However, the Aspect hypothesis, the Underspecification hypothesis and the acquisition of temporal-aspectual properties in his L2 English -which are the three main concerns of this article -have not previously been discussed elsewhere.…”

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“…On this account, then, problems with the realization of morphology are attributed to failure to consistently access certain morphological forms from the lexicon (e.g. Haznedar and Schwartz, 1997;Lardiere, 1998;2000;Prévost and White, 2000;Haznedar, 2001). Hence, the optional use of morphological forms does not indicate an impairment in the representation of the associated functional projections.…”

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“…Lakshmanan, 1994;Gavruseva and Lardiere, 1996;Grondin and White, 1996;Prévost, 1997;Paradis et al, 1998;Haznedar, 2001;Ionin and Wexler, 2002). With the exception of some studies (e.g.…”

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“…Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Bloom et al, 1980;Schlyter, 1990;Shirai and Andersen, 1995;Shirai, 1998; Behrens, 2001), as well as in adult L2 acquisition (e.g. Robison, 1995; BardoviHarlig and Bergström, 1996;Slabakova, 1999;2001). Following the Aspect Hypothesis, in some of these studies L1 and L2 researchers have argued that verbal inflections in early interlanguage grammars function primarily as markers of lexical aspect.…”

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The acquisition of tense—aspect in child second language English

Haznedar

2007

Second Language Research

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and to test Gavruseva's aspectual features account, according to which inherent aspectual properties of the verbs such as telicity and punctuality determine which verbs will be non-finite and which verbs will not (Gavruseva, 2002;2003;2004) in child L2 acquisition. Based on longitudinal data from a Turkish child second language (L2) learner of English, we present counter evidence for both hypotheses. First, it is shown that despite the fact that the early production of past tense morphology occurs exclusively with punctual predicates, data from copula be, auxiliary do and pronominal subjects do not show any evidence for defective tense. Second, contrary to what is predicted in Gavruseva's hypothesis, the rate of uninflected punctual verbs is much higher than that of uninflected non-punctual verbs in the child L2 grammar.Keywords: child L2 acquisition, L2 tense-aspect morphology, Underspecification of Aspect Hypothesis, optional/root infinitives in L2 © 2007© SAGE 10.1177 Second Language Research 23,4 (2007); pp. 383-417 Address for correspondence: Belma Haznedar, Department of Foreign Language Education, Bogaziçi University, 34342 Bebek/Istanbul, Turkey; e-mail: haznedab@boun.edu.tr I IntroductionIt has long been noted that grammatical morphemes cause problems for learners both in first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition (e.g. Brown, 1973;Dulay et al., 1982). In most cases, learners exhibit optionality or variability in the use of morphology relating to tense, agreement, case and/or gender as well as functional elements such as determiners, complementizers and auxiliaries. To this end, much work in L1 and L2 acquisition since the 1970s has explored the presence or absence of verbal and nominal inflection. In regard to the verbal domain, the focus has been on the development of tense-aspect morphology in monolingual and bilingual language acquisition (e.g. Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Bloom et al., 1980;Schlyter, 1990;Shirai and Andersen, 1995;Shirai, 1998; Behrens, 2001), as well as in adult L2 acquisition (e.g. Robison, 1995; BardoviHarlig and Bergström, 1996;Slabakova, 1999;2001). Following the Aspect Hypothesis, in some of these studies L1 and L2 researchers have argued that verbal inflections in early interlanguage grammars function primarily as markers of lexical aspect. That is, when inflections emerge, they are not evenly distributed across all verbs, but mark inherent aspect, not deictic tense.In child L2 acquisition, on the other hand, recent work has mainly concentrated on the acquisition of tense and agreement morphology (e.g. Lakshmanan, 1994;Gavruseva and Lardiere, 1996;Grondin and White, 1996;Prévost, 1997;Paradis et al., 1998;Haznedar, 2001;Ionin and Wexler, 2002). With the exception of some studies (e.g. Rohde, 1996;Gavruseva, 2002;2003;2004), there has been little discussion of how tense-aspect morphology develops in child L2 acquisition. Based on longitudinal data from a Turkish-speaking child L2 learner of English, the primary aim of this article is to investigate the acquisition...

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