Structural competition in second language production: towards a constraint-satisfaction model
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Article Title | Structural competition in second language production: towards a constraint-satisfaction model |
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ERA Journal ID | 20437 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Austin, Gavin (Author), Pongpairoj, Nattama (Author) and Trenkic, Danijela (Author) |
Journal Title | Language Learning: a journal of research in language studies |
Journal Citation | 65 (3), pp. 689-722 |
Number of Pages | 34 |
Year | 2015 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0023-8333 |
1467-9922 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12108 |
Web Address (URL) | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12108/abstract |
Abstract | Second language (L2) learners often show inconsistent production of some aspects of L2 grammar. One view, primarily based on data from L2 article production, suggests that grammatical patterns licensed by learners’ native language (L1) and those licensed by their L2 compete for selection, leading to variability in the production of L2 functional morphology. In this study, we show that the idea of structural competition has broader applicability, in correctly predicting certain asymmetries in the production of both the definite article the and plural marking –s by Thai learners of English. At the same time, we recognize that learners’ growing sensitivity to structural regularities in the L2 might be an additional contributing factor, and therefore make a novel proposal for how the L1–L2 structural competition model and the sensitivity-to-L2-structural regularities account could be integrated and their respective contributions studied under the constraint-satisfaction model of language processing. We argue that this approach is particularly suited to studying bilingual processing as it provides a natural framework for explaining how highly disparate factors, including partially activated options from both languages, interact during processing. |
Keywords | L2 functional morphology; production; articles; plural; structural competition; cross-linguistic influences |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 399999. Other education not elsewhere classified |
470499. Linguistics not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand | |
University of York, United Kingdom | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3317/structural-competition-in-second-language-production-towards-a-constraint-satisfaction-model
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