Universal Grammar, transfer and variabilitya case study

  1. Escutia López, Marciano
Zeitschrift:
Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense

ISSN: 1133-0392

Datum der Publikation: 2002

Nummer: 10

Seiten: 67-86

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

This paper examines the English interlanguage of an adult Spanish advanced subject. It is tried to show here how his variable performance in spontaneous conversation and grammaticality judgements with respect to certain core grammar aspects may reflect a non native competence based both on his first language grammatical competence and new language rule construction capabilities. Supposedly native clustering parametrical properties appear to be learned separately, some of them requiring negative evidence to be fixed.