Acquisition of L2 English adverb placement by L1 Russian and Greek Cypriot speakers
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2017/08/0013/000315Keywords:
adverb placement, word order, L2 English, Russian, Cypriot GreekAbstract
This study investigates the acquisition of L2 English adverb placement by L1 Russian and L1 Greek Cypriot speakers. It aims to find out whether structural differences and similarities among English, Russian and Greek lead to facilitative or negative syntactic transfer effect in L2 acquisition of English. The results of the grammaticality judgment task showed that there is a facilitative transfer from L1 Russian into L2 English and negative transfer from L1 CG into L2 English. It was found that the participants had a better performance on the adverbs of frequency rather than on adverbs of manner. L2 proficiency and years of L2 learning affect adverb placement and the rate of cross-linguistic influence.
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