Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish
Authors
Lena Dal Pozzo
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2015
Copyright Information
© 2015 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-870-5
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-870-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-306-0
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361