Recent acquisitional studies reveal that formal properties at the lexicon-syntax interface are in place before discursive properties at the syntax-discourse interface. It has been argued that this phenomenon results from learners’ deficits with interpretable discursive features like [focus]. This study claims that the phenomenon derives from learners’ deficits with the un-interpretable formal features responsible for regulating the occurrence of discursive focus, whereas learners’ representation of interpretable focus features are intact. This claimwas tested by conducting a study with Greek learners of non-native Spanish at three proficiency levels. Learners judged Subject-Verb and Verb-Subject order with intransitives (unergatives and unaccusatives), which is constrained both formally (Unaccusative Hypothesis at the lexicon-syntax interface) and discursively (presentational focus at the syntax-discourse interface). Results confirm that, while the general ‘syntax-before-discourse’ observation is correct, learners’ source of persistent deficits with discursive properties derives from the uninterpretable feature that regulates the syntactic realisation of focus. This implies that learners are sensitive to the (interpretable) [focus] feature, but are unable to grammaticalise it syntactically.
2024. Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness. Language Acquisition► pp. 1 ff.
Brehmer, Bernhard, Aldona Sopata & Massimiliano Canzi
2023. Same or different? Subject realization in the majority and the heritage language of Polish-German bilingual children. Linguistics Vanguard 9:s2 ► pp. 179 ff.
Hermas, Abdelkader
2023. Genericity in L2 French and L3 English: a pragmatic deficit with a semantic consequence. International Journal of Multilingualism 20:2 ► pp. 425 ff.
2023. Word Order with Transitives and the Interface Hypothesis in L2 Greek and L2 Spanish. In Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition, ► pp. 97 ff.
Margaza, Panagiota & Anna Gavarró
2024. Subject position and verb class in L2 Greek and L2 Spanish. Second Language Research 40:3 ► pp. 591 ff.
Leal, Tania & Bradley Hoot
2022. L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus. Language Acquisition 29:4 ► pp. 410 ff.
Ge, Haoyan, Aoju Chen & Virginia Yip
2021. COMPREHENSION OF FOCUS-TO-ACCENTUATION MAPPING IN SENTENCES WITHONLYBY ADVANCED CANTONESE LEARNERS AND DUTCH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 43:1 ► pp. 25 ff.
Jarrah, Marwan & Mustafa Harb
2021. Grammatical Encoding of Discourse Structure: A Case Study of The Arabic Discourse Particle Tara. Transactions of the Philological Society 119:1 ► pp. 83 ff.
Jin, Jing & Sihui Ke
2021. Second Language Acquisition at Interfaces: A Study of the Word Order Variation in the Chinese Nominal Domain. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 50:3 ► pp. 563 ff.
2018. Second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case drop. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 21:1 ► pp. 63 ff.
Lozano, Cristóbal & Marcus Callies
2018. Word Order and Information Structure in Advanced SLA. In The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition, ► pp. 419 ff.
Mendikoetxea, Amaya & Cristóbal Lozano
2018. From Corpora to Experiments: Methodological Triangulation in the Study of Word Order at the Interfaces in Adult Late Bilinguals (L2 learners). Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 47:4 ► pp. 871 ff.
2019. Focus in heritage Hungarian. Language Acquisition 26:1 ► pp. 46 ff.
CHAMORRO, GLORIA, ANTONELLA SORACE & PATRICK STURT
2016. What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19:3 ► pp. 520 ff.
Chamorro, Gloria, Patrick Sturt & Antonella Sorace
2016. Selectivity in L1 Attrition: Differential Object Marking in Spanish Near-Native Speakers of English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 45:3 ► pp. 697 ff.
Contemori, Carla & Paola E. Dussias
2016. Referential choice in a second language: evidence for a listener-oriented approach. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31:10 ► pp. 1257 ff.
Bel, Aurora, Marta Ortells & Gary Morgan
2015. Reference control in the narratives of adult sign language learners. International Journal of Bilingualism 19:5 ► pp. 608 ff.
Parafita Couto, MarÃa C., Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole & Hans Stadthagen-González
2015. Interface strategies in monolingual and end-state L2 Spanish grammars are not that different. Frontiers in Psychology 5
Lozano, Cristóbal
2013. Word Order in Second Language Spanish. In The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition, ► pp. 287 ff.
Valenzuela, Elena & Bede McCormack
2013. The Syntax-Discourse Interface and the Interface Between Generative Theory and Pedagogical Approaches to SLA. In Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom [Educational Linguistics, 16], ► pp. 101 ff.
Ivanov, Ivan P.
2012. L2 acquisition of Bulgarian clitic doubling: A test case for the Interface Hypothesis. Second Language Research 28:3 ► pp. 345 ff.
García-Alcaraz, Estela & Aurora Bel
2011. SELECCIÓN Y DISTRIBUCIÓN DE LOS PRONOMBRES EN EL ESPAÑOL L2 DE LOS HABLANTES DE ÁRABE. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas 0:6
Ortiz López, Luis A.
2011. Spanish in Contact with Haitian Creole. In The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, ► pp. 418 ff.
2010. Interface conditions on postverbal subjects: A corpus study of L2 English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13:4 ► pp. 475 ff.
Sorace, Antonella & Ludovica Serratrice
2009. Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development: Beyond structural overlap. International Journal of Bilingualism 13:2 ► pp. 195 ff.
2007. Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: Evidence from near-native Italian. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 25:4 ► pp. 657 ff.
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