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Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3] 2012
► pp. 219–253
keynote-epistemological-article
Different speakers, different grammars
Individual differences in native language attainment
Ewa Dąbrowska | Northumbria University
This article reviews several recent studies suggesting that — contrary to a widespread belief — adult monolingual native speakers of the same language do not share the same mental grammar. The studies examined various aspects of linguistic knowledge, including inflectional morphology, passives, quantifiers, and more complex constructions with subordinate clauses. The findings suggest that, in some cases, language learners attend to different cues in the input and end up with different grammars; in others, some speakers extract only fairly specific, ‘local’ generalizations which apply to particular subclasses of items while others acquire more abstract rules which apply ‘across the board’. At least some of these differences are education-related: more educated speakers appear to acquire more general rules, possibly as a result of more varied linguistic experience. These findings have interesting consequences for research on bilingualism, particularly for research on ultimate attainment in second language acquisition, as well as important methodological implications for all language sciences.
Keywords: individual differences, ultimate attainment, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, academic achievement, passive, quantifier, subordination, inflectional morphology
Article outline
- Polish genitive singular masculine inflection
- Polish dative singular inflection
- Four complex English constructions
- Passives
- Quantifiers, and passives again
- Competence or performance?
- Reasons for individual differences
- Conclusion
- Notes
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Published online: 07 September 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.01dab
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.01dab
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