Project

Development of shared syntactic representations in second language acquisition.

Code
3G049416
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Linguistics
Keywords
second language acquisition syntax artificial grammars
 
Project description

Our project investigates the acquisition of syntactic representations in a second language. We test a theory that proposes a process of increasing syntactic abstraction both within and between languages (Hartsuiker & Bernolet, 2016). We therefore follow subjects during 10 weeks as they learn an artificial learning; we use cross-linguistic structural priming to test the degree of abstraction across languages.