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Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition : = A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition :/
Reminder of title:	A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English.
Author:	Platt, Elizabeth Jane.
Description:	1 online resource (209 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International51-09A.
Subject:	Language arts. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9010988click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798207656366

Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition : = A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English.
Platt, Elizabeth Jane.

Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition :A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English. - 1 online resource (209 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references

This study of adult second language acquisition (SLA) tests a hypothesis proposed for first language acquisition (FLA) within the Government and Binding framework of Chomsky's Extended Standard Theory (1981,1986). A grammatical judgment task was used to elicit data about late learners' mental representations of two aspects of English grammar. The two features of English are claimed to be related by means of a parameter, a dimension along which languages may vary, and which relates several covarying features. First, learners speaking languages (L1s) which allow referential and expletive subjects to be null in tensed clauses must learn that English requires an obligatory subject. Second, they must learn certain properties of the English auxiliary system, namely the environments in which they are required and their position with respect to other sentence elements. In this study these two features were operationalized by means of grammatical judgment task. Two groups were tested, speakers of Spanish for whom referential subjects may be null because agreement features on the verb identify them, and speakers of Vietnamese for whom subjects may be null because of discourse deletion. Consistent with the parameter-setting claim of Hyams (1986) and the supporting evidence of Hilles (1986), the results demonstrate a relationship for the Spanish L1 group between the obligatory subject and the English auxiliary system. However, the relationship is not in the direction Hyams (1986) proposed, but instead in the opposite direction. A plausible explanation for these data overall lies within the parameter-setting framework. Spanish speakers experience a delay in the resetting of the parameter because they falsely assume English to have the properties of an agreement language. It is argued that the Vietnamese results demonstrate an independent mastery of each of the two main variables types. Although neither transfer nor developmental theories satisfactorily account for the overall pattern of results, each helps explain the findings on some specific variables.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798207656366Subjects--Topical Terms:

532624
Language arts.
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Vietnamese speakersIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition : = A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English.
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