The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Stefano Rastelli
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 20] 2024. xii, 226 pp.
Stefano Rastelli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefano Rastelli plays a role.
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Subjects Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Chapter 5. The uncertainty principle in second language acquisition Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of Professor Michael H. Long, Benati, Alessandro G. and John W. Schwieter (eds.), pp. 101–112 | Chapter
This chapter presents three themes that I have discussed with Mike Long on different occasions in recent years: The Discontinuity Hypothesis, the necessity to study the ‘intra-language’ (in addition to the ‘interlanguage’) and the uncertainty principle. The latter is the idea that abstract rules… read more
2015 Different effects of syntactic knowledge, associative memory and working memory in L2 processing of filler-gap dependencies: A cross-modal picture-sentence study on L2 Chinese learners of Italian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 67–82 | Article
In the present contribution we tested how syntactic knowledge, associativelexical memory (AM) and working memory (WM) contribute to the processing of filler-gap dependencies (FGD) in 27 lower-intermediate L1 Chinese learners of L2 Italian. To test learners’ structural knowledge, pictures of a… read more