Summary Details
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Strong Crossover Task
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| Author: | William J Crawford | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
Language Acquisition |
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| Summary: |
For Query: Linguist 11.650 This is a follow-up to my query dated March 21, 2000. In the absence of any known task, I am attempting to construct a method of determining knowledge of the strong crossover constraint on movement for adult L2 learners. I have now devised a task and I would like to share it with anyone who is interested in taking a look at it and providing some feedback. If you are interested, let me know and I can send you the task, either as a MS WORD file or as a in-test email message. At this point: I would like to thank Stephen Wilson for the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at MIT for pointing out Crain and Thornton's 1998 book, Investigations in Universal Grammar. (See reference below.) I have used their task and adapted it into a sort of combination of a truth value task and a forced choice scenario. I would also like to thank Mia Kuha from the Department of English at Ball State University for her valuable comments and questions in previous versions of the present task. Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Maryland, also mentioned a good source for a strong-crossover task similar to that of Crain and Thornton's. This can be found in Crain and Lillo Martin's 1998 book (See reference below.) Finally, Suzette Haden Elgin also helped me with earlier versions of the task. Strong Crossover test references: Crain, S. and Lillo-Martin, D. 1999. An Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition. Blackwell. Crain, S. and Thornton, R. 1998. Investigations in Universal Grammar: A guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantic Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Thanks in advance William J. Crawford U.W. Department of English 5116 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St. Madison, Wisconsin 53706 wcrawfor@facstaff.wisc.edu |
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| LL Issue: | 11.926 | |
| Date Posted: | 22-Apr-2000 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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