Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish

In this thesis, it will be argued that the interlanguage of adult L2 learners contains a degree of optionality which is best explained as an inability to establish morphophonological correspondences in the L2. The argument is constructed within a particular view of Universal Grammar, with special em...

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Main Author:	Bossons, Monica
Published:	University of Salford 2005
Subjects:	468.2421
Online Access:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490415

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description	In this thesis, it will be argued that the interlanguage of adult L2 learners contains a degree of optionality which is best explained as an inability to establish morphophonological correspondences in the L2. The argument is constructed within a particular view of Universal Grammar, with special emphasis on the derivational processes and the legibility of syntactic representations to speech and thought systems.
author	Bossons, Monica
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title	Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish
title_short	Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish
title_full	Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish
title_fullStr	Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish
title_full_unstemmed	Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish
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Optionality in second languages: Evidence from L2 Spanish

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