Open AccessL2 effects on L1 in foreign language learners: An exploratory study on object pronouns and verb placement in wh-questions in Polish
Author(s) -
Kamil Długosz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
prace językoznawcze
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-0801
pISSN - 1509-5304
DOI - 10.31648/pj.7032
Subject(s) - linguistics , clitic , object pronoun , german , object (grammar) , computer science , syntax , sentence , grammar , verb , psychology , subject pronoun , pragmatics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , personal pronoun , philosophy
This study investigates L2 effects on L1 grammar in foreign language learners. As partof a cross-sectional study, 25 Polish native speakers learning English and German, and16 Polish monolingual speakers participated in an acceptability judgment test in Polish The test involved two grammatical phenomena: anaphoric object pronouns which lie at thesyntax-pragmatics interface, and verb placement in wh-questions, which is a propertyof narrow syntax. The analysis shows that multilingual learners accepted overt anaphoricobject 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 propertieswhich 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