Parsing to Learn
Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
Laurent Dekydtspotter
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurent Dekydtspotter is involved.
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2018 Chapter 4. Animacy-based processing loads in anaphora resolution in (non-native) French: Evidence for privileged interface representations Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova, Cho, Jacee, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Chapter
This article examines animacy-based processing loads in conceptual structure in native and non-native processing of French during the resolution of pronouns lui/elle ‘3p.sing.masc/fem’, son ‘3p.sing.gen,’ and le/la ‘3p.sing.masc/fem.acc’ in displaced constituents under reconstruction. Both lui and… read more
2014
The parsing-to-learn hypothesis (Fodor, 1998) identifying the parser as the language acquisition device (PLAD) is discussed for second-language (L2) grammatical acquisition. Parsing is assumed to involve concomitant UG-sanctioned structure generation and licensing by a parameterized lexicon. In… read more
2007 Syntax-semantics in English-French interlanguage: Advancing understanding of second language epistemology French Applied Linguistics, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 75–102 | Article
2005 Evidence for the C-domain in early Interlanguage EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz (eds.), pp. 7–34 | Article
On the basis of Hindi-English Interlanguage data, Bhatt and Hancin-Bhatt (2002) advance the Structural Minimality hypothesis in which C-domain categories are not licensed in early second language (L2) acquisition, and claim that this leads early L2 learners to misconstrue Prepositional Phrases in… read more