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Hopp, Holger – Second Language Research, 2014
This article offers the author's commentary on the Multiple Grammars (MG) language acquisition theory proposed by Luiz Amaral and Tom Roeper in the present issue. Multiple Grammars advances the claim that optionality is a constitutive characteristic of any one grammar, with interlanguage grammars being perhaps the clearest examples of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Native Language
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Hopp, Holger – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
This study investigates ultimate attainment at the syntax-discourse interface in adult second-language (L2) acquisition. In total, 91 L1 (first-language) English, L1 Dutch and L1 Russian advanced-to-near-native speakers of German and 63 native controls are tested on an acceptability judgement task and an on-line self-paced reading task. These…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Word Order, German