The One-clause-at-a-time Hypothesis

By A. Pawley, Frances Hodgetts Syder. 2000

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Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German* (2010, background): “Multi-clause syntactic frames such as the ACTION–GOAL sequences that are memorized independently of lexical content (Pawley & Syder, 2000) become entrenched through frequent usage in the dominant language (German), and are then also selected in the planning of event construals in the nondominant…”
Recursion and the infinitude claim (2010, background): “Pawley and Syder (2000) argues that clausal subordination hardly occurs at all in spontaneous English speech.”
The link between vocabulary knowledge and spoken L2 fluency (2008, background): “Previous research has found that hesitations interrupting conceptual or syntactic units are perceived as disfluent (Pawley and Syder 2000 , 170); more frequent clause-internal hesitations appear to be characteristic of L2 production, and particularly of disfluent speech.”