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SUMMARY:Linguistic intuitions beyond grammatical correctness: evidence fro
 m untutored L2 learners - Dr Teresa Parodi\, University Lecturer\, Theoret
 ical and Applied Linguistics\, Faculty of Modern &amp\; Medieval Languages
DTSTART:20190117T130000Z
DTEND:20190117T143000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Adult L2 learners are widely and unanimously reported to perfo
 rm badly with respect to inflectional morphology\, in particular with boun
 d morphemes. This shows in the lack of markings for tense and plural\, for
  example\, observed in production and confirmed by comprehension tests.\n\
 nThe observation holds for speakers whose L1 is morphologically rich\, suc
 h as Turkish\, or poor\, such as Chinese. Beyond showing lack of knowledge
  of the relevant language\, the phenomenon has normally been taken as an i
 ndication that L2 learners´ utterances aim at conveying meaning on the ba
 sis of lexical items\, but without any particular grammatical organisation
 . In this presentation I will use evidence from learners of German and Dut
 ch to shed light on alternative means used by (untutored) L2 learners to c
 onvey information about tense and number\, that reveal their linguistic in
 tuitions and the solutions found to express them.
LOCATION:Room 336\, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (MML)
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