"Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French

Two construction types that are allowed in Afrikaans but not in French are transitive expletive constructions and full-NP object shift constructions. The study reported here tested whether Afrikaans-speaking advanced adult learners had knowledge of the ungrammaticality of these two construction typ...

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Main Author: Conradie, Simone
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2010-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/2