Literacy and Adults’ Acquisition of Morphosyntax
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| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Kapitola v odborné knize |
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| Popis | This chapter takes ideas from Vainikka and Young-Scholten’s chapter in the Handbook’s first edition (2013) on stages in the acquisition of L2 morphosyntax. Complementing this second edition chapter is Chapter 16, with its focus on the development of reading and writing by adult migrants with little or no literacy in their home language(s). This chapter applies ideas presented in the 2013 chapter to research on non-/low-literate adults to explore whether literacy influences their acquisition of morphosyntax. It provides an overview of key studies, of the L2 acquisition of migrant adults, both cross-sectional and longitudinal, over the decades that such research was prevalent. The focus of the chapter is application of two stage-based theories of L2 morphosyntax development, Organic Grammar and the Basic Variety. With these theories in mind, we discuss analyses of oral production data from adult migrants acquiring English and Italian, respectively. The results reveal learners’ use of unanalyzed chunks which rather than implicating literacy seems to implicate developmental stage. |