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标题：The Interpretability of Features in Second Language Acquisition: Evidence from Null and Postverbal Subjects in L2 English
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作者：Alexandra Prentza ; Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli
期刊名称：Journal of Greek Linguistics
印刷版ISSN：1566-5844
电子版ISSN：1569-9846
出版年度：2013
卷号：13
期号：2
页码：323-365
DOI：10.1163/15699846-13130204
出版社：BRILL
摘要：We examine the microparameters of null and postverbal subjects in the Greek L1/English L2 interlanguage, exploring the role of interpretability in interlanguage representations. Our results suggest that while uninterpretable features are inaccessible in L2 acquisition, interpretable features are available and play a compensatory role. Although the abstract L1 properties of subject-verb agreement seem to transfer to the L2 representation, the effects appear scattered and transfer is not direct. We thus suggest that Greek-learner L2 English grammar exhibits non-random optionality in the properties of null and postverbal subjects, regulated by parameter-resetting (feature re-valuation) which is, however, neither the L1 (Greek) nor the target L2 (English) option.
关键词：null subjects; postverbal subjects; features; interpretability; Logical Form (LF); Phonological Form (PF)