L2 effects on L1 in foreign language learners: An exploratory study on object pronouns and verb placement in wh-questions in Polish
Kamil Długosz
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w PoznaniuAbstract
This study investigates L2 effects on L1 grammar in foreign language learners. As part of a cross-sectional study, 25 Polish native speakers learning English and German, and 16 Polish monolingual speakers participated in an acceptability judgment test in Polish The test involved two grammatical phenomena: anaphoric object pronouns which lie at the syntax-pragmatics interface, and verb placement in wh-questions, which is a property of narrow syntax. The analysis shows that multilingual learners accepted overt anaphoric object pronouns in a sentence-internal position significantly more frequently than monolingual speakers from the control group. Object pronouns in the native language seem to bean element open to the influence of a foreign language, in contrast to linguistic properties
which are solely syntactic. This study thus confirms that interface phenomena are moreprone to cross-linguistic influence than purely syntactic features, but it also extends thisthesis to include L2 effect on L1.
Keywords:
L2 effects, cross-linguistic influence, object pronouns, wh-questions, V2, PolishReferences
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