LEFT DISLOCATION IN NEAR-NATIVE FRENCH

The present study is concerned with the upper limits of SLA—specifically, mastery of the syntax-discourse interface in successful endstate learners of second-language (L2) French (near-native speakers). Left dislocation (LD) is a syntactic means of structuring spoken French discourse by marking topi...

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Vydané v:Studies in second language acquisition Ročník 33; číslo 3; s. 399 - 432
Hlavný autor: Donaldson, Bryan
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.09.2011
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Adult education
Besson, Luc
Computational Linguistics
Discourse
Discourse Analysis
English (Second Language)
French
French as a Second Language Learning
French language
Grammar
Italian
Language Proficiency
Language Research
Linguistics
Native languages
Native Speakers
Nonnative languages
Nonnative Speakers
Oral Language
Pragmatics
Property
Referents
Second language acquisition
Second Language Learning
Subject pronouns
Syntactic analysis
Syntactic Processing
Syntax
Syntax Discourse Relationship
Syntax semantics relationship
Thinking Skills
Topics
Verbs
ISSN:0272-2631, 1470-1545
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Shrnutí:The present study is concerned with the upper limits of SLA—specifically, mastery of the syntax-discourse interface in successful endstate learners of second-language (L2) French (near-native speakers). Left dislocation (LD) is a syntactic means of structuring spoken French discourse by marking topic. Its use requires speakers to coordinate syntactic and pragmatic or discursive knowledge, an interface at which L2 learners have been shown to encounter difficulties (e.g., Sorace, 1993; Sorace & Filiaci, 2006). The data come from (a) an 8.5-hr corpus that consists of recordings of 10 dyadic conversations between near-native and native speakers of French and (b) two contextualized paper and audio tasks that tested intuitions and preferences regarding LD. Analyses of the near-native speakers’ production of LDs, the syntactic properties of their LDs, and their use of LDs to promote different types of discourse referents to topic status suggest that their mastery of this aspect of discourse organization converges on that of native speakers.
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ISSN:0272-2631
1470-1545
DOI:10.1017/S0272263111000039