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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Grammatical features influencing information structure: van
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Title: Grammatical features influencing information structure 
Subtitle: The case of L1 and L2 Dutch and English 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Suzan van Ierland

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930201 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.28


Abstract:

All  people tell stories. But what happens, when you're asked to tell a story in a 
language that is not yours? In this dissertation I research storytelling and event 
retelling by speakers of Dutch and English, in their native language, but also in 
their second language. I pay special attention to those aspects of grammar that 
could influence information structure. The experiments in this thesis show that 
word order and progressive aspect are important grammatical features for 
deciding how to structure your information. However, the results also show that 
even though native speakers of English and Dutch behave very differently, it is 
possible for some very advanced learners to perform native-like in their second 
language. Theoretically, these results present evidence against Levelt's 
implication that language-specific requirements only come into play at the 
microplanning level. Slobin's model of 'thinking for speaking' cannot explain the 
results either. Therefore, in the final chapter, an adapted model of language 
production is proposed. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Structure
                     Second Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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