Toward Second Language Acquisition A Study of Null-Prep
This book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers new perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship
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STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS VOLUME 17
Managing Editors
Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Kenneth Wexler, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Editorial Board
Robert Berwick, Artifical Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Manfred Bierwisch, Zentralinstitutfiir Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin Merrill Garrett, University ofArizona, Tucson Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Mary-Louise Kean, University of California at Irvine Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs John Marshall, Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford Daniel Osherson, MI. T., Cambridge, Mass. Yukio Otsu, Keio University, Tokyo Edwin Williams, Princeton University
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
TOWARD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION A Study of Null-Prep
by ELAINE C. KLEIN Queens College and The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Klein, Elaine C. Toward second language acquisition a study of nul I-prep / by Elaine C. Klein. p. cm. -- (Studies in theoretical psycholinquistics ; v. 17) Inc I udes index. ISBN 978-94-010-4902-3 ISBN 978-94-011-2038-8 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-94-011-2038-8 1. Second language acquisition. 2. Grammar, Comparative and
general--Prepositions. 3. Grammar, ComparativS and general--Syntax. 4. Markedness (LinguistiCs) 1. Title. II. Series. P118.2.K56 1993 401' .93--dc20
93-28052
ISBN 978-94-010-4902-3
Printed on acid-free paper
Typesetting by Richard E.C. White, Queens College, CUNY All Rights Reserved © 1993 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishersi in 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.
To Janet, for putting up with me, and To Bob, for putting up without me
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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CHAPTER 1. MARKEDNESS THEORY AND SECOND :r,.ANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview 1.2 Markedness Theory 1.2.1 Background 1.2.2 Typological Markedness 1.2.3 Syntactic Markedness 1.2.4 The Subset Principle 1.3 Markedness Theory in L2 Acquisition Notes
1 1 7 8 8 11 12 15 15 21
CHAPTER 2. PIED-PIPING AND PREPOSITION STRANDING 2. Introduction 2.1 Establishing Markedness Values for Pied-Piping and Preposition Stranding 2.1.1 Typological Criteria 2.1.2 Syntactic Criteria 2.1.3 The Subset Principle 2.2 Pied-Piping and Preposition Stranding in L2 Acquisition 2.2.1 L2 Studies of Languages Other than English 2.2.2 L2 Studies of English Notes
23 23 23 23 24 28 34 35 41 48
CHAPTER 3. THE NULL-PREP PHENOMENON 3. Introduction 3.1 Null-Prep in L 1 Acquisiti
