From Corpora to Experiments: Methodological Triangulation in the Study of Word Order at the Interfaces in Adult Late Bilinguals (L2 Learners)

Autor/inn/en	Mendikoetxea, Amaya; Lozano, Cristóbal
Titel	From Corpora to Experiments: Methodological Triangulation in the Study of Word Order at the Interfaces in Adult Late Bilinguals (L2 Learners)
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47 (2018) 4, S.871-898 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lozano, Cristóbal)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-018-9560-0
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Second Language Learning; Adults; Grammar; Interlanguage; Verbs; Nouns; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Cognitive Processes; Phonology; Word Order + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Grammatik; Zielsprache; Psycholinguistik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Fonologie; Wortfolge
Abstract	This paper shows the need to triangulate different approaches in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research to fully understand late bilinguals' interlanguage grammars. Methodologically, we show how experimental and corpus data can be (and should be) triangulated by reporting on a corpus study (Lozano and Mendikoetxea in "Biling Lang Cognit" 13(4):475-497, 2010) and a new follow-up offline experiment investigating Subject-Verb inversion (Subject-Verb/Verb-Subject order) in L1 Spanish-L2 English (n = 417). Theoretically, we follow a recent line in psycholinguistic approaches to Bilingualism and SLA research (Interface Hypothesis, Sorace in "Linguist Approaches Biling" 1(1):1-33, 2011). It focuses on the interface between syntax and language-external modules of the mind/brain (syntax-discourse [end-focus principle] and syntax-phonology [end-weight principle]) as well as a language-internal interface (lexicon-syntax [unaccusative hypothesis]). We argue that it is precisely this multi-faceted interface approach (corpus "and" experimental data, core syntax "and" the interfaces, representational "and" processing models) that provides a deeper understanding of (i) the factors that favour inversion in L2 acquisition in particular and (ii) interlanguage grammars in general. (As Provided).
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