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Ultimate attainment at the interfaces in second language acquisition

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Analyzing variability in L2 ultimate attainment

Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 2021
Abstract Ultimate attainment is typically more heterogeneous among second-language (L2) learners than among native speakers (e.g. Bley-Vroman, 1990). The present study offers a suite of simple analytical procedures aimed at exploring types and loci of variability in L2 attainment vis-à-vis those in the corresponding first language (L1), with special ...
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Ultimate attainment of L2 inflection

EUROSLA Yearbook, 2004
Many L2 speakers fail to supply functional morphology consistently in production. In this paper, the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis (PTH) is proposed, where this is attributed to L1 constraints on prosodic structure. The PTH maintains that functional material which is appropriately represented in syntax may be deleted in production if prosodic structures
Heather Goad, Lydia White
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Ultimate attainment in bilingual first language acquisition

Lingua, 2015
Abstract Montrul, 2008 , Montrul, 2011 has recently argued that heritage languages are acquired incompletely. The present study analyzes longitudinal data of 24 German–Romance and Romance–Romance (French, Italian, Spanish) simultaneous bilingual children until the age of 4 or 5 who have been raised in otherwise monolingual countries where the ...
Malin Hager, Natascha Müller
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Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition

Language, 1992
On the prevailing view of ultimate attainment in second language acquisition, native competence cannot be achieved by postpubertal learners. The present study offers convergent experimental evidence which suggests there are exceptions to this generalization.
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ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT IN L2 PHONOLOGY

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Within both first and second language acquisition research, a critical or sensitive period for complete attainment has largely been substantiated in phonological studies, although it is questionable whether age should be examined in isolation from sociopsychological influences and the extent of exposure to the second language.
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Energy conservation: A theory of L2 ultimate attainment

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2017
AbstractThe current theoretical landscape of second language acquisition (SLA) features abundance, disunity, and fragmentation. As early as 1993, Long counted 68 theories. That number, for sure, has only multiplied in the ensuing years, though what exactly counts as a theory has remained conceptually unsettled. Extant theories are diverse and disparate;
ZhaoHong Han, Gang Bao, Paul Wiita
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Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: a prosodic approach

Second Language Research, 2006
In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional categories or features that are absent in the first language (L1), suggesting that fossilization is inevitable.
Heather Goad, Lydia White
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Ultimate attainment in Spanish spirantization

Spanish in Context, 2018
AbstractThis study examines the acquisition of the Spanish spirantization of /b/, /d/ and /g/ by a group of very advanced L2 learners who immigrated to Spain from the United States and have lived in central Spain for many years. While spirantization has received considerable attention in previous L2 research on Spanish, the participants in previous ...
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