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The end-state L2 acquisition of binding properties of English reflexives by adult Turkish learners of English

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in English Language Education.
dc.contributor.advisor Gürel, Ayşe.
dc.contributor.author Tanış, Fatma.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:08:43Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:08:43Z
dc.date.issued 2007.
dc.identifier.other FLED 2007 T36
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16556
dc.description.abstract This thesis investigates the end-state second language acquisition (L2) of binding properties of English reflexives by adult Turkish learners to address the issue of UG availability in the end-state L2 grammar. According to the Full Access Model, L2 learners have direct access to innate principles and parameters of Universal Grammar (UG) from the initial state to the end-state in the process of L2 acquisition. Following this model, in this thesis, I predict that L2 learners, having direct access, to UG will acquire binding properties of L2 English reflexives. That is, the end-state L2 grammar of adult Turkish learners of English will converge on native English norms with respect to reflexive binding. 35 adult Turkish speakers of L2 English participated in this study. They were all English language teachers who are considered to be end-state L2 speakers. In addition, in the control group, there were 20 native speakers of English. A grammaticality judgment task and a story-based truth-value judgment task were used to examine whether the end-state L2 grammars of the adult Turkish learners of L2 English are governed by the principles and parameters of UG in the context of reflexive binding. The results of the two tests suggest that the L2 learner’s grammar is UG-constrained and that despite some differences between the L1 and L2, L2 learners can accomplish the acquisition of L2 features in the end-state L2 grammar.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Second language acquisition.
dc.subject.lcsh English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
dc.subject.lcsh Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
dc.subject.lcsh Grammar, Comparative and general -- Reflexives.
dc.title The end-state L2 acquisition of binding properties of English reflexives by adult Turkish learners of English
dc.format.pages viii, 101 leaves;


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