Russian Speakers' L2 Chinese Acquisition of "Wh"-Topicalization at the Syntax-Discourse Interface

Autor/in	Dugarova, Esuna
Titel	Russian Speakers' L2 Chinese Acquisition of "Wh"-Topicalization at the Syntax-Discourse Interface
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 30 (2014) 4, S.411-437 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658313516974
Schlagwörter	Russian; Native Language; Second Language Learning; Chinese; Syntax; Discourse Analysis; Interlanguage; Grammar; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Foreign Countries; Cloze Procedure; China (Beijing) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Russisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; China; Chinesen; Diskursanalyse; Zielsprache; Grammatik; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Ausland; Lückentext
Abstract	In recent second language (L2) research it has been proposed that unlike linguistic phenomena pertaining to internal interfaces, those at external interfaces pose greater difficulty to adult L2 learners and may not be fully acquired. It has further been pointed out that such problematic acquisition at the interface level should not be attributed to the entire interface and requires a more nuanced examination, and this is what the current article aims to provide. An empirical study reported here investigates whether Russian-speaking learners are able to acquire Chinese "wh"-topicalization that lies at the syntax-discourse interface, an instance of the external interface. The results indicate that although very advanced Russian speakers can acquire "wh"-topicalization in their L2 Chinese, the ability of "wh"-elements to topicalize in Russian-Chinese interlanguage grammars seems to be determined by an internal structure underlying Chinese wh-elements, and this is likely to be a variable that affects the linguistic behaviour at the interface level in the L2. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10