The Universal Parser and Interlanguage: Domain-Specific Mental Organization in the Comprehension of "Combien" Interrogatives in English-French Interlanguage.

Dekydtspotter, Laurent

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Publication Date: 2001

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The Universal Parser and Interlanguage: Domain-Specific Mental Organization in the Comprehension of "Combien" Interrogatives in English-French Interlanguage.

Dekydtspotter, Laurent

Second Language Research, v17 n2 p91-143 Apr 2001

From the perspective of Fodor's (1983) theory of mental organization and Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist theory of grammar, considers constraints on the interpretation of French-type and English-type cardinality interrogatives in the task of sentence comprehension, as a function of a universal parsing algorithm and hypotheses embodied in a French-type versus English-type functional lexicon respectively. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Epistemology, French, Grammar, Interlanguage, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

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