The Role of Semantic Constraints in L2 Acquisition of the English Locative Alternation
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The present research investigates the acquisition of the English locative alternation by Korean EFL learners, which poses a learnability paradox taking Pinker’s framework of learnability theory as its basis. It focuses on two questions (1) whether the broad-range and narrow-range semantic constraints are operative in the interlanguage of Korean EFL learners as they are in L1 children’s and (2) how lexical knowledge is represented initially and at different levels of interlanguage development. Three groups of learners at different proficiency levels with a control group of English native speakers are examined by using two instruments: elicited production task and grammaticality judgment task. The broad-range constraint (holism effect) is found operative in interlanguage of all the Korean learners as suggested by the previous research as to language-universal properties of broad-range constraints. As for the knowledge of narrow-range constraints and verb classes, only advanced learners show native-like knowledge of the semantic constraint. Narrow-range constraints seem more difficult to acquire due to their language-particular properties. According to different levels of proficiency, the learners exhibit gradual sensitivity to a change of state meaning and obtain complete perception of the meanings of locative verbs (manner-of-motion and change-of-state) and their constructions.
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