Uninterpretable Features and Agreement*

On the Teachability of L2 Uninterpretable Features: Instructing Resumptive Pronouns through Contrastive Analysis vs. Dictogloss Techniques

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Parsing in the Minimalist Program: On SOV Languages and Relativization

This paper examines computational issues in the processing of SOV languages in the probe-goal framework, a theory in the Minimalist Program (MP). A generative theory that seeks to minimize search, such as the probe-goal model, provides a strong linguistic basis for the investigation of efficient parsing architecture. For parsing, two main design challenges present themselves: (1) how to limit s...

L2 Greek morphological agreement

The present study investigates morphological agreement in L2 Greek verbal and nominal domains by L1 Russian, Bulgarian, and Turkish speakers, with various features such as person, number, gender, and case involved, following Tsimpli et al. 2005. Russian, Bulgarian, and Greek are similar in terms of phi-feature agreement, but different from Turkish. A further distinction will be made for the L2 ...

Individual Differences and the Role of the L1 in L2 Processing: An ERP Investigation

Our study uses event-related potentials (ERP) to investigate two factors in the second language (L2) processing of agreement: the role of number and gender features in the native language (L1), and the impact of individual differences between learners. Previous ERP studies investigating L2 agreement vary as to whether they find native-like processing (e.g., Rossi et al., 2006; Tokowicz and MacW...

Uninterpretable features: psychology and plasticity in second language learnability