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Selective Vulnerability in Very Advanced L2 Grammars: Evidence from VPE Constraints
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Al-Thubaiti, Kholoud A. – Second Language Research, 2019
This study examines whether the second language acquisition (L2A) of syntactic properties at the interfaces is problematic for L2 learners. English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) was tested as an interface property which involves feature interpretability. Two subtle contrasts of VPE at different grammar-internal interfaces were examined: (a) copula…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Syntax