The acquisition of multiple wh-questions by high-proficiency non-native speakers of English.

Autor/inn/en	Bley-Vroman, Robert; Yoshinaga, Naoko
Titel	The acquisition of multiple wh-questions by high-proficiency non-native speakers of English.
Quelle	In: Second language research, 16 (2000) 1, S. 3-26Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben; Grafiken
Sprache	englisch; japanische Zitate
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Transfer; Frage; Grammatik; Universalgrammatik; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung; Englisch; Englischunterricht; Japanisch
Abstract	The paper investigates the knowledge of multiple wh-questions such as Who ate what? by high-proficiency non-native speakers of English whose first language is Japanese. Japanese grammar is known to license a wider range of such questions than English - who came why, for example - although the precise theoretical account is not yet clear. Acceptability judgements were obtained on 6 different types of such questions. Acceptability of English examples was rated by native speakers of English, Japanese examples were judged by native speakers of Japanese, speakers of English examples were judged by high-proficiency Japanese speakers of English. The results for native speakers judging their own language were generally in accord with expectations. The high-level non-native speakers of English were significantly different from native speakers in their ratings of these sentences. However, the ratings were clearly not simply the result of transfer. The consequences of this finding for theories of Universal Grammar (UG) in second language acquisition (SLA) are discussed. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2024/2