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Direct linkHerschensohn, Julia – Second Language Research, 2006
Four recent volumes on acquisition of French by different populations cover a range of areas, particularly the development of verbal tense/agreement and nominal gender/concord in first language (L1) acquirers, as opposed to second language (L2) learners; the generalizability of grammatical deficits (e.g. difficulty acquiring parametrized features…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Child Language, Second Language Learning
Goad, Heather; White, Lydia – Second Language Research, 2006
In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional categories or features that are absent in the first language (L1), suggesting that fossilization is inevitable. Instead, we support the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis, which argues that the ultimate…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage
