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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
This study examines the claims of the Interface Hypothesis (IH) (Sorace and Filiaci, 2006) which posit that while narrow syntax properties may be fully acquirable by end-state L2 speakers, syntax-discourse interface properties may not. However, research evidence to date is mixed and suffers from …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… modules interact in language, there is an interface. Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers have proposed the Interface Hypothesis, which states that second language (L2) learners are able to acquire narrow syntax, but may experience delay with the interface of syntax and other …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… modules interact in language, there is an interface. Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers have proposed the Interface Hypothesis, which states that second language (L2) learners are able to acquire narrow syntax, but may experience delay with the interface of syntax and other …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… contexts. Such structures involve the interface between syntax and discourse/pragmatics, a vulnerable domain in bilingualism. Previous research has shown overextension of the scope of the overt subject pronoun in contexts where null subjects are discursively expected (e.g. Tsimpli, …
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Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: findings from learners' production data
<p>The Interface Hypothesis (IH) claims that constructions that involve an interface between syntax and other cognitive domains are especially vulnerable to residual optionality or instability in bilingual grammars. However, the evidence is inconsistent and more research is necessary to elucidate …
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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
… and accounts have been provided, including the Interface Hypothesis (IH; Sorace, 2011), the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH; Lardiere, 2009), and the Cue-Based Retrieval Models (CBRMs; Cunnings, 2017). This thesis aims to examine the central question by testing L2 representations and …
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Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars
… aims to shed light on the debates related to the Interface Hypothesis (IH) (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009), which argues that syntactic properties involving other cognitive domains may not be acquirable. Abundant L2 studies on the IH have focused on null-subject languages with rich inflection. By …
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Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
… and Felser (2006) proposed the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH), which predicts that L2 learners will rely on non-syntactic cues (e.g., plausibility or heuristic word order) instead of morphosyntactic cues (e.g., case-marking information) in sentence processing, and build less detailed syntactic …
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L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities
… attrition effects in Italian beyond traditional interface structures. This is motivated by a critical review of the previous literature on L1 attrition primarily focusing on the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Filiaci 2006). From this, we argue for two relevant patterns: (i) the often discussed …
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The acquisition of alternation in a second language
… acquisition is expected to be in an L2, and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 1993; Sorace and Keller, 2005; Sorace, 2005; Tsimpli and Sorace, 2006; Sorace and Serratrice, 2009; Sorace, 2011, among others), according to which elements whose value depend on an interface (such as the …