Syntactic optionality in non-native grammars

By A. Sorace. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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Fossilization in steady state L2 grammars: Persistent problems with inflectional morphology (2003, background): “Sorace (2000) refers to this kind of variability in endstate grammars as “stable optionality’.”
Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian (2006, methodology): “8We used a similar screening procedure to that designed by White and Genesee (1996), based on the same criteria (the learner’s lexicon, morphology, syntax, phonology and fluency were evaluated independently by two Italian native speakers listening to selected speech samples).”
Lexical and discourse factors in the second language acquisition of Spanish word order (2003, background): “Thus, their proficiency in English could have influenced their performance (see Sorace, 1999; 2000).”
Selective optionality in language development (2005, background): “The characteristics of the best attainable final state – that is, the competence of near-native speakers - are, in a sense, more revealing of Universal Grammar (UG) constraints on L2 acquisition than those of other stages (Borer 1996; Sorace 2000a, 2000b, 2003).”
Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change (2005, background): “…Creole may be an important exception to this generalization (Roberts, 1998). typical even of speakers who have had years of experience with the language, who use it on a regular basis, and whose grammars have stabilized (Adamson, 1988; Newport, 1984, 1990; Sorace, 1999, 2000; Wolfram, 1985).”
What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the L3 initial state (2010, background): “…on overt pronominal subject use in Spanish and Italian, which essentially restrict overt subjects to Focus and switch-reference environments (see Sorace, 2000), the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) represents a syntactically-derived restriction on their respective…”
Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners* (2009, background): “(For more discussion of the role of OPTIONALITY in L2-acquisition, see Sorace, 2000.)”