| Автор | Hirakawa, Makiko |
| Дата выпуска | 1990 |
| dc.description | This paper reports on an experimental study which was conducted to examine how native speakers of Japanese acquire syntactic properties of English reflexive pronouns. In particular, the effects of two parameters of Universal Grammar, the Governing Category Parameter and the Proper Antecedent Parameter (Wexler and Manzini, 1987), were studied. The Governing Category Parameter has five values, of which Manzini and Wexler suggest that English represents the most unmarked value while Japanese and Korean represent the most marked one. In a learning situation where the L 1 is marked and the L2 is unmarked, we may ask whether learners observe the Subset Principle and successfully acquire the correct L2 value or whether they wrongly transfer their L1 value to the L2 grammar, or assume a value in between, as found by Finer and Broselow (1986). An experimental study was conducted to examine how Japanese learners of English set values of the above parameters. Results suggest that the L2 learners transferred their L1 parameter setting, leading to transfer errors; i.e., non-operation of the Subset Principle. However, I suggest that parameter resetting is possible, at least for some learners. |
| Издатель | Sage Publications |
| Название | A study of the L2 acquisition of English reflexives |
| Тип | Journal Article |
| DOI | 10.1177/026765839000600103 |
| Print ISSN | 0267-6583 |
| Журнал | Second Language Research |
| Том | 6 |
| Первая страница | 60 |
| Последняя страница | 85 |
| Аффилиация | Hirakawa, Makiko, McGill University |
| Выпуск | 1 |
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