s Die Transferforschung befasst sich mit der Untersuchung des interlingualen Einflusses, insbesondere beim Erwerb weiterer Fremdsprachen (Tertiärsprachen) zum Tragen kommt. hier vorliegende Studie untersucht den Position von Objektpronomen bei Lernenden Deutsch als L3. Dafür bearbeiteten mäßig fortgeschrittene und Deutschlernende – zwei Gruppen L1 Rumänisch, L2 Englisch, eine Gruppe Französisch...

Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g. *Lisa filled water into the cup/*Lisa poured the cup with water). The present study investigated two proposals for how learners (aged 5-6, 9-10 and adults) acquire t...

To explain the phenomenon that certain English verbs resist passivization (e.g., *£5 was cost by the book), Pinker (1989) proposed a semantic constraint on the passive in the adult grammar: The greater the extent to which a verb denotes an action where a patient is affected or acted upon, the greater the extent to which it is compatible with the passive. However, a number of comprehension and p...

this study investigated the effects of two types of written feedback – direct corrective feedback (dcf) and metalinguistic explanation (me) - on iranian efl learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of english definite and indefinite articles. assigned to three groups of dcf, me, and control groups, the participants took four tests in three testing phases: pretest, posttest, and delayed posttes...

In Spanish locative constructions, a different form of the copula is selected in relation to the semantic properties of the grammatical subject: sentences that locate objects require estar while those that locate events require ser (both translated in English as 'to be'). In an ERP study, we examined whether second language (L2) speakers of Spanish are sensitive to the selectional restrictions ...

This study investigates whether potential differences in the weight of out-of-school and in-school learning environments affect acquisition L2 English by teenagers two geographical contexts, more less English-rich, with linguistic distance to English, respectively. Participants were groups 14-15-year-olds, from Denmark Spain. Language measures included a listening comprehension test, metalingui...

Lie judgment is an estimation of the speaker's intention to deceive inevitably accompanied by moral judgment. To depict their neural substrates, we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Eighteen subjects read short stories and made judgments in three different tasks: a control gender judgment task, a moral judgment task, and a lie judgment task. Compared with the control task...

The dissertation explores word order phenomena in a ‘free’ word order language, Russian. It has been proposed in the literature that in simple sentences like ‘John sees Mary’, six word orders are equally possible in Russian. The dissertation questions the equal acceptability of these word orders and shows that some of the “felicitous” word orders have a degraded status compared to others. The w...

Between the ages of 3 and 7 years, children have been observed to produce verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (e.g., Don’t giggle me; Bowerman, 1982, 1988; Pinker, 1989). A number of recent studies have begun to find evidence that the precise distributional properties of the input may provide an important part of the explanation for why children retreat from overgeneralization err...