The paper focuses on the acquisition of scopal items (focus particles and negators) in several languages as L2s by adult learners. The mastering of the items in question is an acquisitional difficult task since it involves the ability to correlate some structural indexes with specific semantic and pragmatic functions: the adult learner must identify the meaning of each item, its position in the phrasal chain and its pragmatic implications in a given context. So the paper points out some problems related to the acquisition of scopal items in French, English and German as L2s, furnishing a cognitive and linguistic explanation for the obtained results.
The acquisition of negation and other scopal items in L2 English, French and German / S., Benazzo; Giuliano, Patrizia; C., Perdue; M., Watorek. - (1999). (Intervento presentato al convegno Seminar of the European Project: The Structure of Learner Variety tenutosi a Max-Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Paesi Bassi nel 8-10 ottobre 1999).
The acquisition of negation and other scopal items in L2 English, French and German
GIULIANO, PATRIZIA;
1999
Abstract
The paper focuses on the acquisition of scopal items (focus particles and negators) in several languages as L2s by adult learners. The mastering of the items in question is an acquisitional difficult task since it involves the ability to correlate some structural indexes with specific semantic and pragmatic functions: the adult learner must identify the meaning of each item, its position in the phrasal chain and its pragmatic implications in a given context. So the paper points out some problems related to the acquisition of scopal items in French, English and German as L2s, furnishing a cognitive and linguistic explanation for the obtained results.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
