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- 1. Second language acquisition Sarina Mohsin M jahanzaib Bilali
- 2. 3. Transfer at the syntax–pragmatics interface: Pronominal subjects in bilingual Turkish (by Belma Haznedar) • This study investigates the issue of crosslinguistic influence in the domain of subject realization in Turkish in simultaneous acquisition of Turkish and English. • The use of subjects in a null subject language like Turkish is a phenomenon linked to the pragmatics—syntax interface of the grammar.
- 3. • Thus, is a domain where crosslinguistic interference is predicted to occur in bilingual acquisition. • Spontaneous data collected from one Turkish—English bilingual child and one Turkish monolingual child are compared. • Our results reveal that first production of overt subjects in Turkish is more than that of the control child.
- 4. 4. Deriving meaning through context: Interpreting bare nominals in L2 Japanese (by Alison Gabriele) • The ability to derive word meaning from context depended on grade and concreteness of concepts. • The results of two studies with both intermediate and advanced learners of Japanese show that there are learners at both levels of proficiency that have difficulty with the interpretation of bare count nouns and reading to a verb phrase.
- 5. 5 Recovery from first language transfer: The second language acquisition of English double objects by Korean speakers (by Eunjeong Oh) • Given the negative first language (L1) influence attested in the acquisition of English DOs by Korean speakers • This article examines the recovery process from these negative effects of L1 transfer and the triggering factors in such a process by investigating L2 learners’ knowledge of semantic properties pertinent to English DOs, using an Acceptability Judgment task with contexts. • Furthermore, this article argues that this recovery process can be interpreted as evidence of a tie between syntax and semantics.
- 6. Conclusion • Taken together, the articles in this issue provide further evidence that: Transfer is attested at both internal and external interfaces, for adult L2 learners as well as for adult heritage speakers and bilingual children. • Phenomena at the syntax–semantics interface, recovery from negative transfer is possible. • Internal interfaces are more valuable than purely syntactic Phenomena.