Regular verbs, past tense and frequency: tracking down a potential source of NS/NNS competence differences

Earlier research (e. g., Clahsen, 1988; Meisel, 1991) indicates that adult second language (L2) learners have difficulties determining the relationship between obligatory verb-raising and verbal inflection. This observation led Clahsen and others to the conclusion that Universal Grammar is not avail...

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Published in:Second language research 1997-04, Vol.13 (2), p.93-115
Main Author: Beck, Maria-Luise
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult education
Adult Learning
Adults
Aphasia
College Students
Communicative Competence (Languages)
Computer memory
Didaktische Grundlageninformation
English
English (Second Language)
English as a second language
Erwachsener
Experiments
First language acquisition
Form Classes (Languages)
Fremdsprachenunterricht
Grammar
Higher Education
Inflection (Morphology)
Konjugation
Language acquisition
Language Processing
Language Proficiency
Language Research
Lexik
Linguistic morphology
Linguistics
Morphemes
Morphologie
Morphology
Morphology (Languages)
Morphosyntax
Native Language
Native languages
Native Speakers
Nonnative Speakers
Observation
Past tense
Second language acquisition
Second Language Learning
Studies
Surveys
Syntax
Tempus (Ling)
Tense
Tenses (Grammar)
Universal grammar
Universalgrammatik
Verbform
Verbs
Zweitsprachenerwerb
Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung
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Summary:Earlier research (e. g., Clahsen, 1988; Meisel, 1991) indicates that adult second language (L2) learners have difficulties determining the relationship between obligatory verb-raising and verbal inflection. This observation led Clahsen and others to the conclusion that Universal Grammar is not available to the adult L2 learner. The experiments reported here address a more parsimonious explanation for this observation, namely, that L2 competence includes a deficit that affects only the lexical or morphosyntactic mechanisms involved in verb-raising. Specifically, the studies examine one of two possible loci of this deficit and indicate that this possibility may be ruled out. (Verlag).
ISSN:0267-6583
1477-0326
DOI:10.1191/026765897670780840