Inflectional morphology
Inflectional morphology
Adult L2 learners often exhibit variability in their use of inflectional morphology, even at very high levels of proficiency and across the verbal and nominal domains. In this chapter, we define morphological variability and show that morphology errors are systematic because linguistically constrained. Suppliance of inflectional morphemes in obligatory contexts under-represents learner knowledge of functional categories, and in particular, their semantic and syntactic effects. Nevertheless some properties exhibit considerably more variability than others. Morphological defaults, markedness effects and feature interpretability have been advanced as linguistically-based explanations of morphological variability. A dissociation of underlying morphosyntactic knowledge (competence) and slower, more labored processing, including lexical access difficulty, are proposed to explain differences between native speakers’ and advanced learners’ performance.
Slabakova, Roumyana
1bda11ce-ce3d-4146-8ae3-4a486b6f5bde
July 2018
Slabakova, Roumyana
1bda11ce-ce3d-4146-8ae3-4a486b6f5bde
Slabakova, Roumyana
(2018)
Inflectional morphology.
In,
Malovrh, Paul and Benati, Alessandro
(eds.)
The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition.
(Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
1 ed.
Wiley-Blackwell.
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Adult L2 learners often exhibit variability in their use of inflectional morphology, even at very high levels of proficiency and across the verbal and nominal domains. In this chapter, we define morphological variability and show that morphology errors are systematic because linguistically constrained. Suppliance of inflectional morphemes in obligatory contexts under-represents learner knowledge of functional categories, and in particular, their semantic and syntactic effects. Nevertheless some properties exhibit considerably more variability than others. Morphological defaults, markedness effects and feature interpretability have been advanced as linguistically-based explanations of morphological variability. A dissociation of underlying morphosyntactic knowledge (competence) and slower, more labored processing, including lexical access difficulty, are proposed to explain differences between native speakers’ and advanced learners’ performance.
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Paul Malovrh
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Alessandro Benati
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