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- Title
Beyond interfaces.
- Authors
Gómez Soler, Inmaculada
- Abstract
By analyzing the empirical data from two experiments that test Spanish psychverb properties (e.g. gustar 'to like'), this article assesses the empirical adequacy of the Interface Hypothesis (IH), which claims that external interfaces (i.e. interfaces between a linguistic module and a cognitive module) are more problematic for learners than internal interfaces/narrow syntax (Sorace & Filiaci, 2006; Sorace, 2011; inter alia). Because my findings were inconsistent with the IH (i.e. target-like pragmatics knowledge can precede syntactic awareness of the same construction), I turned to the Integrative Model of Bilingual Acquisition (Pires & Rothman, 2011), which accounts for non-native divergence by resorting to the interplay of a series of factors (i.e. formal complexity, L1-L2 parameter mapping, processing resources, and PLD). This more articulated model is not only able to account for the patterns in these experiments but it also constitutes a more integrated explanation for the intricacies of the acquisition process.
- Subjects
SECOND language acquisition; BILINGUALISM -- Social aspects; MORPHOSYNTAX; THEORY (Philosophy); DEVELOPMENTAL psychology; FOREIGN language education
- Publication
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 4, p494
- ISSN
1879-9264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lab.4.4.04gom