Blar i forfatter Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning "Jensen, Mirjam Gustava"
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Investigating the Bottleneck Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition The acquisition of narrow syntax and functional morphology among Norwegian L2 learners of English
Jensen, Mirjam Gustava (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2017-05-15)In this thesis, I test the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova 2008, 2013, 2016). The Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) accounts for what is easy and what is hard to acquire in a second language (L2). The BH claims that functional morphology is the difficult part of second language acquisition, and that narrow syntax, for instance, is easier to acquire. More specifically, the BH argues that when English is ...