Selective optionality in language development

By A. Sorace. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Interface vulnerability and knowledge of the subjunctive/indicative distinction with negated epistemic predicates in L2 Spanish (2008, background): “However, the data also suggest that target-like acquisition of syntax–discourse interface properties is possible, suggesting that this interface is not a source of inevitable fossilization due to problems specifically effecting features interpreted at the syntax–discourse interface (in contra Bellet”
Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children (2007, background): “…English near-native speakers of Italian and Spanish have also been found to overgeneralise preverbal subjects in discourse contexts which require the use of postverbal subjects but they do not extend postverbal subjects to inappropriate contexts (Belletti, Bennati and Sorace, 2005; Hertel, 2003).”
Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch (2008, background): “Therefore, following Sorace (2005), we expect that quantitative and qualitative differences between monolingual and bilingual grammars are possible when the input is below a certain threshold.”
The Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition (2007, background): “Specifically, L2 variability can be regarded as the result of problems at the narrow syntax, the interface between syntax and discourse (Sorace, 2005) or syntax and morpho-phonology (Haznedar and Schwartz, 1997; Lardiere, 1998; Prévost and White, 2000).”
Age and input in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch (2008, background): “Lexical development is clearly affected by the input; according to Umbel and Oller (1995) and Anderson (1999), reduced input can greatly affect the lexical develop-”
The weaker language in early child bilingualism: Acquiring a first language as a second language? (2007, background): “Conversely, Sorace (2005) suggested that quantitative differences, compared to monolinguals, will only cause a delay in acquisition, whereas qualitative differences in the input may indeed result in representation problems, at least for interface phenomena.”
Quantitative analyses in a multivariate study of language attrition: the impact of extralinguistic factors (2010, background): “First language (L1) attrition is a stage in the development of bilingual competence that is often likened to second language acquisition (e.g. Sorace, 2005) in that speakers appear to develop aspects of language use which are similar to phenomena that can be witnessed in advanced or near-native…”
Crosslinguistic influence at the syntax proper: Interrogative subject–verb inversion in heritage Spanish (2013, methodology): “More recently, Sorace et al. have reexamined this issue from a generative grammar framework (e.g. Sorace, 2000, 2004, 2005).”