Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests

This thesis investigated speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs. In Experiment 1, both native speakers of English and Korean learners of English as a second language made grammaticality judgments about dative sentences in English. This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of markedness and language transfer in the context of Korean as the first language of English learners. Unlike findings in previous studies on the acquisition of English dative alternation by native speakers of French that markedness could predict the pattern of acquisition, results from Experiment 1 showed that markedness and language transfer explain different aspects of the data. In addition, based on high rate of inaccuracy among judgments by native speakers of English, it was questioned that grammaticality judgments might not accurately reflect what speakers know about certain syntactic domains.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Kim, Choonkyong

Contributors dc:contributor

• McClure, Erica F.

• Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
• Language, Modern

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Kim, Choonkyong

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591198645
AAI9712333
(UMI)AAI9712333

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20170