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dc.contributor.advisorWestergaard, Marit
dc.contributor.advisorGharibi, Khadijeh
dc.contributor.authorRajabi, Melika
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T05:39:09Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T05:39:09Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-14en
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I test the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013, 2016) in L2 acquisition of English by Persian L1 speakers. The Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) examines what is difficult and what is easy to acquire in a second language. According to this hypothesis, functional morphology is the most challenging part for second language learners to acquire, while narrow syntax and semantics are easier to acquire. In the current study, I test four linguistic conditions within three linguistic modules (morphology, syntax and semantics): Subject-verb agreement, Past tense –ed, Adjective-Noun (Adj-N) word order and Pronominal gender. Subject-verb agreement and Past tense –ed represent knowledge of functional morphology, Adj-N word order and Pronominal gender represent knowledge of syntax and semantics respectively. The study consisted of a timed acceptability judgement task with 50 test items, a background questionnaire, and a proficiency test with 29 multiple choice test items, which were administered to Persian learners in two age groups of 10 (n=129) and 12 (n=123). The results of the statistical analysis indicate that the participants struggle more with identifying Pronominal gender than they do with Subject-verb agreement, Past tense –ed and Adj-N word order. Moreover, the results show that Pronominal gender is a more persistent problem and is not acquired well with either of the groups. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate that Past tense –ed is not only easier to acquire than Subject-verb agreement, but also it is easier than Pronominal gender and Adj-N word order. I conclude that the findings do not support the BH.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/25743
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDENG-3991
dc.subjectAgreement, Functional morphology, L1 Persian, L2 English, Past tense, Pronominal gender, Semantics, Syntax, The Bottleneck Hypothesis, Word orderen_US
dc.titleL2 Acquisition of English by Persian L1 Speakers. Comparing Morphology, Syntax and Semantics The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisitionen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgavenor
dc.typeMaster thesiseng


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