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Transfer at the initial state

  • Anke Lenzing*
  • , Anja Plesser*
  • , Katharina Hagenfeld*
  • , Manfred Pienemann*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The role of L1 transfer in second language acquisition has been the focus of exten-
sive research for decades (Gass 1988; Eubank 1993/1994; Schwartz and Sprouse
1994, 1996; Pienemann 1998, Pienemann et al. 2005a, Pienemann 2011) with transfer
at the initial state being of particular interest. Competing approaches have been pro-
posed to address this issue: Full Transfer/Full Access (FT/FA) (Schwartz and
Sprouse 1994, 1996), partial transfer/full access (Vainikka and Young-Scholten
1996) minimal transfer/full access (Platzack 1996) and the Developmentally Moder-
ated Transfer Hypothesis (DMTH) (Pienemann 1998, Pienemann et al. 2005a) to
name some of the key approaches. The debate on the initial state includes the issue
of access to the L1 grammatical system.
Original languageEnglish
JournalZeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Volume61
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)265-286
Number of pages22
ISSN0044-2305
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.07.2013
Externally publishedYes

Research areas and keywords

  • Educational science
  • Language Studies
  • English
  • Didactics of English as a foreign language

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Linguistics and Language

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