Introduction: Some notes on the generative study of l3 acquisition

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-19

  Rothman, Jason ^a   Iverson, Michael ^b   Judy, Tiffany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

cumulative enhancement model; L2 status factor; L3 acquisition; multilingualism; third language; transfer; typological proximity model

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650427154     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658310386443     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Bardel C. and Falk Y. (2007) The role of the second language in third language acquisition: The case of Germanic syntax. Second Language Research 23: 459-84.
2. Bley-Vroman R. (1990) The logical problem of foreign language learning. Linguistic Analysis 20: 3-49.
3. Bley-Vroman R. (2009) The evolving context of the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 31: 175-98.
4. Cabrelli Amaro J. and Rothman J. (2010) L3 acquisition and phonological permeability: A new test case for debates on the mental representation of non-native phonological systems. International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) 48: 273-94.
5. Cabrelli Amaro J., Iverson M., and Judy T. 2009: Informing adult acquisition debates: N-drop at the initial state of L3 Brazilian Portuguese. In: Pires A and Rothman J (eds) Minimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition: Case studies across Portuguese. Berlin/ New York: Mouton DeGruyter, 177-96.
6. Cabrelli J., Iverson M., Judy T., and Rothman J. (2008) What the start of L3 tells us about the end of L2: N-drop in L2 and L3 Portuguese. In: Chan H, Kapia E, and Jacob H (eds) A supplement to the proceedings of the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) conference. Retrieved from: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/supp32.html (November 2010).
7. Cenoz J., Hufeisen B., and Jessner U. (2001) Introduction. In: Cenoz J, Hufeisen B, and Jessner U (eds) Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psychological perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1-7.
8. Chomsky N. (1981) Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris.
9. Chomsky N. (1986) Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin and use. New York: Praeger.
10. Chomsky N. (1995) The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
11. Chomsky N. (2005) On phases. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
12. Clahsen H. and Hong U. (1995) Agreement and null subjects in German L2 development: New evidence from reaction-time experiments. Second Language Research 11: 57-87.
13. Epstein S., Flynn S., and Martohardjono G. (1996) Second language acquisition: Theoretical and experimental issues in contemporary research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19: 677-714.
14. Eubank L. (1996) Negation in early German-English interlanguage: More valueless feature in the L2 initial state. Second Language Research 12: 73-106.
15. Falk Y. and Bardel C. (2011) Object pronouns in German L3 syntax: Evidence for the L2 status factor. Second Language Research 27: 59-82.
16. Flynn S. (1985) Principled theories of adult second language Acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 7: 99-107.
17. Flynn S. (1987) Contrast and construction in a parameter-setting model of L2 acquisition. Language Learning 37: 19-62.
18. Flynn S., Foley C., and Vinnitskaya I. (2004) The cumulative-enhancement model for language acquisition: Comparing adults' and children's patterns of development in first, second and third language acquisition of relative clauses. The International Journal of Multilingualism 1: 3-16.
19. García Mayo M. and Villarreal Olaizola I. (2011) The development of suppletive and affixal tense and agreement morphemes in the L3 English of Basque-Spanish bilinguals. Second Language Research 27: 129-49.
20. Genesse F. (1989) Early bilingual development, one system or two? Journal of Child Language 16: 161-79.
21. Håkansson G., Pienemann M., and Sayheli S. (2002) Transfer and typological proximity in the context of second language processing. Second Language Research 18: 250-73.
22. Halle M. and Marantz A. (1993) Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection. In: Hale K and Keyser SJ (eds) The view from building 20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 111-76.
23. Hammarberg B. (2001) Roles of L1 and L2 in L3 production and acquisition. In: Cenoz J, Hufeisen B, and Jessner U (eds) Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 21-41.
24. Hawkins R. and Hattori H. (2006) Interpretation of English multiple wh-questions by Japanese speakers: A missing uninterpretable feature account. Second Language Research 22: 269-301.
25. Hyams N. (1981) Agreement and the choice of auxiliary in Italian. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society: Volume 11. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
26. Hyams N. (1983) The pro-drop parameter in child grammars. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics: Volume 2. Stanford, CA: Stanford Linguistics Association.
27. Hyams N. (1986) Language acquisition and the theory of parameters. Dordrecht: Reidel.
28. Iverson M. (2009) N-drop at the initial state of L3 Portuguese: Comparing simultaneous and additive bilinguals of English/Spanish. In: Pires A and Rothman J (eds) Minimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition: Case studies across Portuguese. Berlin/New York: Mouton DeGruyter, 221-44.
29. Iverson M. (2010) Informing the age of Acquisition debate: L3 as a litmus test. International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) 48: 221-43.
30. Jaensch C. (2008) L3 acquisition of articles in German by native Japanese speakers. In: Slabakova R, Rothman J, Kempchinsky P, and Gavruseva E (eds) Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 2007) conference. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 81-89.
31. Jaensch C. (2011) L3 acquisition of German adjectival inflection: A generative account. Second Language Research 27: 83-106.
32. Klein EC (1995) Second vs. third language acquisition: Is there a difference? Language Learning 45: 419-65.
33. Lardiere D. (2009) Some thoughts on the contrastive analysis of features in second language acquisition. Second Language Research 25: 173-227.
34. Leung Y-KI(2001) The initial state of L3A: Full transfer and failed features? In: Bonch-Bruevich X, Crawford WJ, Hellermann J, Higgins C, and Nguyen H (eds) The past, present and future of second language research: Selected Proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 55-75.
35. Leung Y.-KI(2005) L2 vs. L3 initial state: A comparative study of the acquisition of French DPs by Vietnamese monolinguals and Cantonese-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 8: 39-61.
36. Leung Y.-KI(2007a) L3 acquisition: Why it is interesting to generative linguists. Second Language Research 23: 95-114.
37. Leung Y.-KI(2007b) The verbal functional domain in L2A and L3A: Tense and agreement in Cantonese-English-French interlanguage. In: Liceras JM, Zobl H, and Goodluck H (eds) The role of formal features in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 385-409.
38. Liceras JM (1985) The value of clitics in non-native Spanish. Second Language Research 1: 4-36.
39. Meisel J. (1983) Transfer as a second language strategy. Language and Communication 3: 11-46.
40. Montrul S., Dias R., and Santos H. (2011) Clitics and object expression in the L3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Structural similarity matters for transfer. Second Language Research 27: 21-58.
41. Müller N. and Hulk A. (2001) Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual acquisition: Italian and French as recipient languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 4: 1-21.
42. Platzack C. (1996) The initial hypothesis of syntax: A minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition. In: Clahsen H (ed.) Generative perspectives on language acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 369-414.
43. Rothman J. (2008) Why not all counter-evidence to the critical period hypothesis is equal or problematic: Implications for SLA. Language and Linguistics Compass 2: 1063-88.
44. Rothman J. (2011) L3 syntactic transfer selectivity and typological determinacy: The typological primacy model. Second Language Research 27: 107-27.
45. Rothman J. and Cabrelli Amaro J. (2010) What variables condition syntactic transfer: A look at the L3 initial state. Second Language Research 26: 189-218.
46. Rothman J. and Iverson M. (2008) Poverty-of-the-stimulus and L2 epistemology: Considering L2 knowledge of aspectual phrasal semantics. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 15: 270-314.
47. Schwartz B. (1986) The epistemological status of second language acquisition. Second Language Research 2: 120-57.
48. Schwartz B. (1998) The second language instinct. Lingua 106: 133-60.
49. Schwartz B. (2003) Child L2 acquisition: Paving the way. In: Beachley B, Brown A, and Conlin F (eds) Proceedings of the 27th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) conference. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 26-50.
50. Schwartz B. and Sprouse R. (1996) L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model. Second Language Research 12: 40-72.
51. Schwartz B. and Sprouse R. (2000) When syntactic theories evolve: Consequences for L2 acquisition Research. In: Archibald J (ed.) Second language acquisition and linguistic theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 156-86.
52. Slabakova R. (2009) L2 fundamentals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 31: 155-73.
53. Sorace A. (2005) Syntactic optionality at interfaces. In: Cornips L and Corrigan K (eds) Syntax and variation: Reconciling the biological and the social. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 46-111.
54. Sorace A. and Filiaci F. (2006) Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian. Second Language Research 22: 339-68.
55. Tsimpli IM and Dimitrikopoulou M. (2007) The interpretability hypothesis: Evidence from whinterrogatives. Second Language Research 23: 215-42.
56. Vainikka A. and Young-Scholten M. (1996) Gradual development of L2 phrase structure. Second Language Research 12: 140-76.
57. White L. (1985a) The acquisition of parameterized grammars: Subjacency in second language acquisition. Second Language Research 1: 1-17.
58. White L. (1985b) The pro-drop parameter in adult second language acquisition. Language Learning 35: 47-62.
59. White L. (2003) Second language acquisition and Universal Grammar. New York: Cambridge University Press.
60. Williams S. and Hammarberg B. (1998) Language switches in L3 production: Implications for a polyglot speaking model. Applied Linguistics 19: 295-333.