Interlanguage and learnability: From Chinese to English By Virginia Yip (review)

By J. Grumet. 2015

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Lexical and discourse factors in the second language acquisition of Spanish word order (2003, background): “Herschensohn (1999; 2000), following Borer (1984) and Wexler and Manzini (1987), suggests that parameterization is essentially lexical, and that the incompleteness often characteristic of SLA can be attributed to difficulties in acquiring the subtleties of particular lexical items rather than to dif”
• Syntactic Transfer in a Cantonese-English Bilingual Child. (2000, unknown): “In the case of adult Chinese learners of English, it has also been noted that null objects are more difficult to detect and unlearn than null subjects (see discussion in Yip, 1995).”
• OVERPASSIVIZATION ERRORS BY SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS (2000, methodology): “…unaccusatives more frequently in externally caused events than in internally caused events, this would strengthen the transitivization hypothesis (Yip, 1995) by demonstrating that a heightened degree of causation increases the likelihood of intransitive verbs being passivized.5 It would also…”