Vulnerable domains for cross-linguistic influence in L2 acquisition of Greek. Sviatlana Karpava / Inquiries in language learning ; volume 16

Neuwertiges Exemplar. - Table of Contents -- List of Tables 23 -- List of Abbreviations 27 -- Chapter 1: Introduction 31 -- 1.1 Introduction: L2 acquisition theories 31 -- 1.2 Background to the study 34 -- 1.3 Research questions 38 -- 1.4 Contribution of the dissertation 39 -- 1.5 Dissertation organisation 40 -- Chapter 2: Second Language Acquisition Theories 43 -- 2.1 Internal/external focus on SLA 43 -- 2.2 Age factor and critical period in L2 acquisition 51 -- 2.3 External and internal factors in L2 acquisition 57 -- 2.4 L1/L2 and adult/child processing 61 -- 2.5 L1/L2 and cross-linguistic transfer 65 -- 2.6 L2 acquisition vs. second dialect acquisition 70 -- 2.7 The role of UG in L2 acquisition 75 -- 2.7.1 Access to UG in LI and L2 75 -- 2.7.2 Feature interpretability 79 -- 2.7.3 Move F. Movement: covert/overt. -- Features: strong/weak 79 -- 2.7.4 Agree by feature matching 81 -- 2.7.5 Agree by feature sharing 83 -- 2.7.6 Functional categories and inflectional -- morphology in L2 85 Chapter 3: Methodology 93 -- 3.1 Type of research 93 -- 3.2 Data collection, validity and reliability of research 97 -- 3.3 L2 corpus 99 -- 3.4 Sampling 101 -- 3.5 Ethical considerations/Procedure 102 -- 3.6 Participants 103 -- 3.7 Materials/Procedure 107 -- 3.7.1 Questionnaire 108 -- 3.7.2 Interviews Ill -- 3.7.3 Observation 113 -- 3.7.4 Oral data elicitation 114 -- 3.8 Data transcription, coding and analysis 116 -- Chapter 4: L2 Greek Clitic Acquisition 119 -- 4.1 Clitics cross-linguistically 119 -- 4.2 Greek clitics 128 -- 4.2.1 CGvs. SMG 134 -- 4.2.2 CG vs. SMG clitics 135 -- 4.2.3 Clitic omission cross-linguistically 139 -- 4.2.4 LI acquisition of Greek clitics 142 -- 4.2.5 L2 acquisition of Greek clitics and determiners 146 -- 4.3 Predictions: LI Russian speakers acquire L2 Greek clitics 150 -- 4.4 Object clitic acquisition study 160 -- 4.4.1 Methodology 160 -- 4.4.2 Object clitic omission/substitution 160 -- 4.4.3 Syntactic environments of object clitics 163 -- 4.4.4 Person feature of object clitics 168 ISBN 9783631665879