Long-Distance Wh-Movement and Long-Distance Wh-Movement Avoidance in L2 English: Evidence from French and Bulgarian Speakers

Autor/in	Slavkov, Nikolay
Titel	Long-Distance Wh-Movement and Long-Distance Wh-Movement Avoidance in L2 English: Evidence from French and Bulgarian Speakers
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 31 (2015) 2, S.179-210 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658314554939
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Native Language; Linguistic Theory; French; French Canadians; Adults; Oral Language; Language Acquisition; Sentence Structure; Language Research; Slavic Languages; Grammar; Linguistic Input; Language Classification; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Bulgaria; Canada (Ottawa) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Linguistische Theorie; Französisch; Frankokanadier; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Sprachforschung; Slawische Sprache; Grammatik; Sprachbildung; Sprachtypologie; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Fragebogen; Bulgarien
Abstract	This article investigates spoken productions of complex questions with long-distance wh-movement in the L2 English of speakers whose first language is (Canadian) French or Bulgarian. Long-distance wh-movement is of interest as it can be argued that it poses difficulty in acquisition due to its syntactic complexity and related high processing load. Adopting the derivational complexity hypothesis, which has so far been applied to long-distance (LD) wh-movement in L1 acquisition and child second language acquisition, I argue that adult L2 learners also show evidence that questions with LD wh-movement are often replaced by alternative utterances with lower derivational complexity. I propose that such utterances, which are sometimes of equivalent length and with similar meaning to the targeted LD wh-structures, are avoidance strategies used by the learners as an intermediate acquisition resource. That is, such strategies are used as an escape-hatch from the derivational complexity of LD wh-movement. Overall, the results of this research indicate that the link between the number and complexity of derivational steps in a given structure is a fruitful area with strong potential in the second language acquisition field. (As Provided).
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