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

  • Simone Conradie Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5842/40-0-2

Abstract

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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Published
2011-08-15
How to Cite
Conradie, S. (2011). "Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 40. https://doi.org/10.5842/40-0-2
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Vol. 40 (2010)
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