"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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| description | 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 types in the target L2 French, given that they had not been instructed about this ungrammaticality. The results of this study show that a large number of the L2 learners had indeed acquired knowledge of this ungrammaticality, despite the absence of (explicit) negative evidence to this effect, raising the question of which types of input or evidence learners make use of in L2 acquisition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-367cc8ede8754403a1772e9e18fc7d6b2022-12-21T22:41:34ZafrStellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus1726-541X2224-33802010-12-01400112610.5842/40-0-2"Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 FrenchConradie, Simone0Stellenbosch University, South AfricaTwo 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 types in the target L2 French, given that they had not been instructed about this ungrammaticality. The results of this study show that a large number of the L2 learners had indeed acquired knowledge of this ungrammaticality, despite the absence of (explicit) negative evidence to this effect, raising the question of which types of input or evidence learners make use of in L2 acquisition.https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/2adult l2 acquisitionafrikaansfrenchdifferent types of inputunlearning construction types |
| spellingShingle | Conradie, Simone "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus adult l2 acquisition afrikaans french different types of input unlearning construction types |
| title | "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French |
| title_full | "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French |
| title_fullStr | "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French |
| title_full_unstemmed | "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French |
| title_short | "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French |
| title_sort | unlearning construction types transferred from the l1 evidence from adult l1 afrikaans l2 french |
| topic | adult l2 acquisition afrikaans french different types of input unlearning construction types |
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