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Transitivity Alternations in L2 Acquisition: Toward a Modular View of Transfer.
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Montrul, Silvina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
This experimental study on English, Spanish, and Turkish as second languages investigates the interaction of universal principles and first language knowledge in interlanguage grammars by focusing on verbs that participate in the causative/inchoative alternation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English, Interlanguage, Language Universals, Second Language Instruction
Causatives and Transitivity in L2 English.
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Montrul, Silvina – Language Learning, 2001
Investigates whether Spanish- and Turkish-speaking learners of English discover the semantic and syntactic constraints on the causative/inchoative alternation in the absence of overt morphological clues. Results of a picture judgment task show that second language learners do discover these properties and that overall verbs appear to cluster in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage, Morphology (Languages)