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Verb movement in French L2 acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Dalila Ayoun
Affiliation:
University of Arizona

Abstract

This study investigates the acquisition of verb movement phenomena in the interlanguage of English native speakers learning French as a second language. Participants (n=83), who were enrolled in three different classes, were given a grammaticality judgment task and a production task. The French native speakers' results (n=85) go against certain theoretical predictions for negation and adverb placement in nonfinite contexts, as well as for quantification at a distance. The production task results, but not the grammaticality judgment results, support the hypothesis that the effects of parameter resetting successfully appear in the interlanguage of adult L2 learners.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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