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标题：Pro-Drop Parameter and L1 Transfer: A Study on Turkish Speakers of English
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作者：Safiye İpek KURU GÖNEN
期刊名称：Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Journal of Social Science Institute
电子版ISSN：1309-1387
出版年度：2010
期号：1497
页码：115-133
出版社：Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
摘要：Interlanguage development of foreign/second language learners has taken great interest in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) domain. Whether these learners have access to the principles and parameters; that is, whether Universal Grammar (UG) is available to them have been a controversial issue for researchers. One of the parameters is the pro-drop parameter which allows subject pronouns to be omitted in certain languages such as Japanese and Turkish. However, studies on Turkish, a [+ pro-drop] language, are rare. This study aims at investigating whether native speakers of Turkish reset their L1 pro-drop parameter value when they learn a [- prodrop] language such as English and whether these learners have access to UG in the initial, intermediary and advanced levels of their interlanguage development. The findings of the study has put forward how parameter setting takes place not only in the initial state but also in the later stages of interlanguage development.