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Clitic-Doubled Left Dislocation and Focus Fronting in L2 Spanish: A Case of Successful Acquisition at the Syntax-Discourse Interface
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Slabakova, Roumyana; Kempchinsky, Paula; Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2012
This experimental study tests the Interface Hypothesis by looking into processes at the syntax-discourse interface, teasing apart acquisition of syntactic, semantic and discourse knowledge. Adopting Lopez's (2009) pragmatic features [[plus or minus]a(naphor)] and [[plus or minus]c(ontrast)], which in combination account for the constructions of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Syntax, Semantics, Spanish
Morphological Variability in Second Language Learners: An Examination of Electrophysiological and Production Data
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Alemán Bañón, José; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
We examined sources of morphological variability in second language (L2) learners of Spanish whose native language (L1) is English, with a focus on L1-L2 similarity, morphological markedness, and knowledge type (receptive vs. expressive). Experiment 1 uses event-related potentials to examine noun-adjective number (present in L1) and gender…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Language
Subject-to-Subject Raising and the Syntax of Tense in L2 Spanish: A Full Access Approach
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Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Pires, Acrisio; Rothman, Jason – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
This paper investigates the acquisition of syntax in L2 grammars. We tested adult L2 speakers of Spanish (English L1) on the feature specification of T(ense), which is different in English and Spanish in so-called subject-to-subject raising structures. We present experimental results with the verb parecer "to seem/to appear" in different…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning
On L3 Acquisition and Phonological Permeability: A New Test Case for Debates on the Mental Representation of Non-Native Phonological Systems
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Amaro, Jennifer Cabrelli; Rothman, Jason – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
The goal of this article is to make an epistemological and theoretical contribution to the nascent field of third language (L3) acquisition and show how examining L3 development can offer a unique view into longstanding debates within L2 acquisition theory. We offer the Phonological Permeability Hypothesis (PPH), which maintains that examining the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Multilingualism, Epistemology, Second Language Learning
On the (Un)-Ambiguity of Adjectival Modification in Spanish Determiner Phrases: Informing Debates on the Mental Representations of L2 Syntax
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Rothman, Jason; Judy, Tiffany; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro; Pires, Acrisio – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This study contributes to a central debate within contemporary generative second language (L2) theorizing: the extent to which adult learners are (un)able to acquire new functional features that result in a L2 grammar that is mentally structured like the native target (see White, 2003). The adult acquisition of L2 nominal phi-features is explored,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
What Variables Condition Syntactic Transfer? A Look at the L3 Initial State
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Rothman, Jason; Cabrelli Amaro, Jennifer – Second Language Research, 2010
This study investigates transfer at the third-language (L3) initial state, testing between the following possibilities: (1) the first language (L1) transfer hypothesis (an L1 effect for all adult acquisition), (2) the second language (L2) transfer hypothesis, where the L2 blocks L1 transfer (often referred to in the recent literature as the "L2…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, French, Transfer of Training
On the Typological Economy of Syntactic Transfer: Word Order and Relative Clause High/Low Attachment Preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
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Rothman, Jason – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
One central question in the formal linguistic study of adult multilingual morphosyntax (i.e., L3/Ln acquisition) involves determining the role(s) the L1 and/or the L2 play(s) at the L3 initial state (e.g., Bardel & Falk, Second Language Research 23: 459-484, 2007; Falk & Bardel, Second Language Research: forthcoming; Flynn et al., The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism