Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
First language attrition of constraints on wh-scrambling: Does the second language have an effect? |
| Authors: |
Gürel, Ayşe1 |
| Source: |
International Journal of Bilingualism. Feb2015, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p75-91. 17p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Language & languages, Non-English speaking people, Turkish language ability testing, Sociolinguistics, Scrambling systems (Telecommunication) |
| Abstract: |
This paper examines the effects of English as a second language (L2) on Turkish as a first language (L1) in the domain of wh-scrambling, as formulated in the generative framework. Unlike English, Turkish allows wh-extractions out of islands under certain morphological conditions. The data come from 27 native Turkish speakers, who have immigrated to an English-speaking country at an adult age and used English as a dominant language. The results of an acceptability judgment task revealed the same tendencies in the attrition and monolingual control group towards rejection of certain grammatical wh-extractions. Thus, the findings implicate no L2 influence in L1 change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
