Resetting Bounding Nodes in Acquiring Spanish

This paper addresses the issue of whether L2 learners can reset parameters, by testing English speakers learning Spanish on their ability to reset the bounding node parameter. The bounding nodes are : IP and NP in English, CP and NP in Spanish. Subjects were given a grammaticality judgment task in S...

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Main Author: Cebreiros, Ramiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1996-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/454