On the acceptance of the null that by bilingual Catalan/Spanish L2 learners of English

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• dc.contributor.author Llinàs-Grau, Mireia
• dc.contributor.author Bel, Aurora
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-04T06:48:29Z
• dc.date.available 2022-03-04T06:48:29Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract The research presented in this article aims at providing new data on L2 learner knowledge and recognition of the null that in complement clauses. The speech of English native speakers reveals a kind of variation which implies that where that may be present or absent in clauses selected by many common verbs such as say or think there is no preference for one of the two options. In this article, judgement data of bilingual Catalan/Spanish upper-intermediate and advanced L2 learners of English are analysed bearing in mind two possible factors that, according to previous research, may influence the acceptance of this phenomenon, level of proficiency and absence versus presence of instruction. A relevant issue regarding this construction is that performing like a native does not always imply using one grammatical structure in the target language and gradually doing away with the use of another ungrammatical one; it rather implies being able to detect native speaker frequency in the use of one of the two possible options, overt that usage or the null that. Our results show that learning in this domain depends more on degree in language proficiency than in the specific instruction provided, that both choices do not pose the same di culty and that advanced L2 learners of English can display a native-like acceptance of the null that option. The option that presents more challenges is the one where there is no L1 facilitation.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by a grant from the National Plan of Scientific and Technical Innovation Investigation (grant FFI2016-75082-P, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain).
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• dc.identifier.citation Llinàs-Grau M, Bel A. On the acceptance of the null "That" by bilingual Catalan/Spanish L2 learners of English. Languages. 2019;4(2):30. DOI: 10.3390/languages4020030
• dc.identifier.doi https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages4020030
• dc.identifier.issn 2226-471X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52622
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MDPI
• dc.relation.ispartof Languages. 2019;4(2):30
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-75082-P
• dc.rights © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Second language acquisition
• dc.subject.keyword Null that complementizer
• dc.subject.keyword Overt that usage
• dc.subject.keyword L2 English
• dc.subject.keyword Experimental judgement data
• dc.title On the acceptance of the null that by bilingual Catalan/Spanish L2 learners of English
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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