L2 Acquisition of Indexical Shift Parameter in Turkish
This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of a specific syntactic phenomenon known as indexical shift. Indexicals are lexical items that pick their referents in discourse. For instance, ‘I’ and ‘you’ refer to the speaker and addressee of the conversation. In some languages, however, indexicals may...
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BÜTEK Boğaziçi Eğitim Turizm Teknopark Uygulama ve Dan. Hiz. San. Tic. A.Ş.
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| description | This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of a specific syntactic phenomenon known as indexical shift. Indexicals are lexical items that pick their referents in discourse. For instance, ‘I’ and ‘you’ refer to the speaker and addressee of the conversation. In some languages, however, indexicals may shift to pick a different referent in the matrix clause when they are embedded in a finite complement clause. In other words, languages are largely divided into two groups: shifting and non-shifting languages. Therefore, a natural question to ask is to what extent does L1 affect the L2 acquisition of indexical shift? To answer this question, I carry out an experiment with learners of Turkish from shifting and non-shifting languages and find that L1 has no effect on the learners’ level of native-like performance. Turkish strongly favours shift and learners fall behind native speakers. But the difference between learners from shifting and non-shifting languages is insignificant. The paper also reiterates and elaborates on the judgments of native speakers previously attained elsewhere. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8057baaf00e4310826555af778225ba2023-02-15T16:22:03ZengBÜTEK Boğaziçi Eğitim Turizm Teknopark Uygulama ve Dan. Hiz. San. Tic. A.Ş.Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392020-12-01312231263https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.628387L2 Acquisition of Indexical Shift Parameter in TurkishKadri KURAM0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8829-5680Bartın UniversityThis paper investigates the L2 acquisition of a specific syntactic phenomenon known as indexical shift. Indexicals are lexical items that pick their referents in discourse. For instance, ‘I’ and ‘you’ refer to the speaker and addressee of the conversation. In some languages, however, indexicals may shift to pick a different referent in the matrix clause when they are embedded in a finite complement clause. In other words, languages are largely divided into two groups: shifting and non-shifting languages. Therefore, a natural question to ask is to what extent does L1 affect the L2 acquisition of indexical shift? To answer this question, I carry out an experiment with learners of Turkish from shifting and non-shifting languages and find that L1 has no effect on the learners’ level of native-like performance. Turkish strongly favours shift and learners fall behind native speakers. But the difference between learners from shifting and non-shifting languages is insignificant. The paper also reiterates and elaborates on the judgments of native speakers previously attained elsewhere.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/822227indexical shiftparameter resettingl2 acquisitionl1 transferuniversal grammar |
| spellingShingle | Kadri KURAM L2 Acquisition of Indexical Shift Parameter in Turkish Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi indexical shift parameter resetting l2 acquisition l1 transfer universal grammar |
| title | L2 Acquisition of Indexical Shift Parameter in Turkish |
| title_full | L2 Acquisition of Indexical Shift Parameter in Turkish |
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| title_short | L2 Acquisition of Indexical Shift Parameter in Turkish |
| title_sort | l2 acquisition of indexical shift parameter in turkish |
| topic | indexical shift parameter resetting l2 acquisition l1 transfer universal grammar |
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