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Is Native-like Competence Possible in L2 Acquisition? (2001)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{And01isnative-like,
author = {Silvina Montrul And and Silvina Montrul and Roumyana Slabakova},
title = {Is Native-like Competence Possible in L2 Acquisition?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development},
year = {2001},
pages = {522--533}
}
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Abstract
r, was subject to a critical period. Birdsong (1992) replicated Coppieters study with other French near-native speakers by making methodological improvements, and contrary to Coppieters, found that many near-natives performed like native speakers. However, Birdsong did not test the perfective/imperfective aspectual contrast. In this article we question Coppieterss and many others claims on ultimate attainment. Starting from the premise that tense/aspect is part of Universal Grammar, we follow recent developments in theories of inflection and aspectual phenomena within a generative perspective (Giorgi & Pianesi, 1997), according to which grammatical aspect is instantiated in the functional category AspectP, situated between VP and TP in the clause structure, where the formal features [-- perfective] are checked. This approach allows us to formulate precise research questions and hypotheses in the context of recent developments in linguistic theory and theories of impairment in L2 acq
Keyphrases
native-like competence possible l2 acquisition recent development critical period tense aspect french near-native speaker universal grammar precise research question formal feature giorgi pianesi methodological improvement generative perspective many near-natives grammatical aspect functional category aspectp aspectual phenomenon coppieters study many others claim ultimate attainment clause structure native speaker l2 acq perfective imperfective aspectual contrast linguistic theory
