LING 355 Lecture 22: Nov 26: L2 Acquisition
17 Dec 2016
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There"s no way you can get from the input, to the steady state of a native language, without. This goes back to the poverty of the stimulus problem. It is assumed that you have intermediate stages before you hit the target -- it"s not a single movement (that"s" why g1, g2, gn steady state grammar of l1). We refer to these as interlanguage grammars. Assume your l1 is french, and you want to learn turkey as your l2. Strong: if in your language you need something like an adjective, this category is already there. Weak: you begin without it, and it emerges as you move towards a more advanced level of l1/l2. Continuity doesn"t make sense to talk about in l2 acquisition. Something else = axis to a universal principle. It"s much easier to check if you"re transferring stuff from your l1. This goes back to the problem people have about ug.
