|
Home page List of proceedings Info for readers Info for authors Info for editors Info for libraries Order form Shopping cart |
Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002): L2 Links edited by Juana M. Liceras, Helmut Zobl, and Helen Goodluck ISBN 1-57473-401-6 library binding vii + 360 pages publication date: 2003 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Marina Augusto Recognizing 'then' as an Adverb: An Experiment with Brazilian Learners of English 9-16 (complete pdf) The acquisition of English by Brazilian students is considered, with main focus on the temporal adverb then. A comparative study of European versus Brazilian Portuguese uses of então (Augusto 2001) - the equivalent to then in this language - gives support to the view that então in BP functions mainly as a discourse marker. That influence clearly shows up in the interlanguage that arises in the process of EFL. As far as verb-adverb placement is considered, results show some surprising behavior for then when compared to other adverbs such as always and rarely, which suggests that then is not easily analyzed as a temporal adverb by BP students of English as a foreign language. Results seem to support the Full Transfer/Full Access Model (Schwartz and Sprouse 1996). The Minimal Trees Model (Vainikka and Young-Scholten 1994, 1996) is not able to accommodate the data. The role L1 plays for accommodating conflicting evidence into the L2 interlanguage is discussed. |