The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated
The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated
The Bottleneck Hypothesis identifies parts of the grammar that are easier or moredifficult to acquire in a second language. It argues that the functionalmorphology is the bottleneck in L2 acquisition because it bundles a variety ofsemantic, syntactic & phonological features that affect the meaning & acceptabilityof the whole sentence. In this chapter, the BH is updated after a decade sinceits proposal. Current views of Universal Grammar & parametric variation areoutlined. Implications of those current views for adult L2A are spelled out. Newevidence for the BH is reviewed from the L2A of semantics, morphophonology &syntax. Additional factors that complicate acquisition of the functionalmorphology are discussed and a pyramid of L2A difficulty is proposed.
second language acquisition, The Bottleneck Hypothesis, functional morphology, syntax, semantics, syntax-discourse interface, features in L2, Parameters, hierarchy of acquisition difficulty
319-315
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Slabakova, Roumyana
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Slabakova, Roumyana
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Slabakova, Roumyana
(2019)
The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated.
In,
Ionin, Tania and Rispoli, Matthew
(eds.)
Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(Language Acquisition and Linguistic Disorders)
First ed.
7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (08/09/16 - 10/09/16)
Amsterdam.
John Benjamins Publishing Company, .
(doi:10.1075/lald.63.16sla).
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The Bottleneck Hypothesis identifies parts of the grammar that are easier or moredifficult to acquire in a second language. It argues that the functionalmorphology is the bottleneck in L2 acquisition because it bundles a variety ofsemantic, syntactic & phonological features that affect the meaning & acceptabilityof the whole sentence. In this chapter, the BH is updated after a decade sinceits proposal. Current views of Universal Grammar & parametric variation areoutlined. Implications of those current views for adult L2A are spelled out. Newevidence for the BH is reviewed from the L2A of semantics, morphophonology &syntax. Additional factors that complicate acquisition of the functionalmorphology are discussed and a pyramid of L2A difficulty is proposed.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 April 2019
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7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States, 2016-09-08 - 2016-09-10
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second language acquisition, The Bottleneck Hypothesis, functional morphology, syntax, semantics, syntax-discourse interface, features in L2, Parameters, hierarchy of acquisition difficulty
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Tania Ionin
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