Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: In coping with variability in morphological production in L2 acquisition, which represents a\nchallenge for the parameter (re-)setting theories, Lardiere (2008) proposed the feature reassembly hypothesis in which sequential difficulty in L2 acquisition of morpho-syntactic features\nis captured by the processes of (re-)assembly and mapping of features onto their morphological\nrealizations. Slabakova (2009, 2013) incorporated Lardiere’s proposal in establishing a scale of\ndifficulty in learning semantic properties (e.g. definiteness) which is based on whether\nreassembly is needed and whether the universal meaning is obtained by overt morphology or\ncontext (See also Ramchand & Svenonius, 2008). In considering the truth-conditional aspect of\nmeaning, the feature-based framework is not powerful enough to account for the variability of\ninterpretations that L2 learners come to learn. Take as an example the acquisition of English\ncomparatives by Japanese L2 learners. We discuss the L2 acquisition of a special type of syntaxsemantics mismatch in which in which a certain meaningprimitive (i.e., comparative and tense)\nis expressed using different truth conditions in the native and target language.
Author: Abdel‐Rahman Abu Helal
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2952848596