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- Title
Tense and verb raising in advanced L2 French.
- Authors
Herschenson, Julia; Arteaga, Deborah
- Abstract
Two UG approaches to L2A propose different views of parameter resetting, depending on the capacity of interlanguage grammars to gain new values for uninterpretable functional features. Representational Deficit/Interpretability (e.g. Hawkins, 2003) maintains that parameter settings are limited to L1 values, whereas Full Access (e.g. Prévost & White, 2000) claims L2 parameter values may be gained; both assume initial transfer of L1 morphosyntactic settings. We examine verb morphosyntax of three advanced anglophone learners of L2 French, beginning with a description of the theoretical issues. We next report the study: the subjects, data collection and results. The final section discusses the data in terms of the two approaches, concluding that the results generally support FA over RD/I.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH verbs; TENSE (Grammar); VERBS; MORPHOSYNTAX; INTERLANGUAGE (Language learning)
- Publication
Journal of French Language Studies, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 3, p291
- ISSN
0959-2695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959269509990019