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dc.contributor.advisorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.authorJokar, Soraya
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-25T05:42:46Z
dc.date.available2024-06-25T05:42:46Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-14en
dc.description.abstractIn the current thesis, I investigated the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2006, 2008, 2013) concerning Persian L1 speakers' acquisition of English as their second language. The Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) focuses on the aspects of learning a second language that are challenging and those that are simple. According to this hypothesis, acquiring functional morphology is the challenging part (or the bottleneck) of second language acquisition while acquiring syntax and semantics is more straightforward. In this thesis, I examined three linguistic conditions (Subject-Verb agreement, Verb-Object word order and Definiteness) as representative of three linguistic categories (Morphology, Syntax, Semantics-Morphology). 29 university students whose first language is Persian participated in the study through the administration of an acceptability judgment task with 48 questions, a background questionnaire, and a competency exam (Oxford proficiency test) with 20 multiple-choice test items to answer. The results indicated that the Bottleneck Hypothesis is supported. The participants struggled more with recognizing morphology than narrow syntax. Definiteness as a representative of semantics-morphology was the most challenging condition for participants. Subject-Verb agreement and Verb-Object word order were in the hierarchy of the difficulty respectively.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33903
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 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.subjectSubject-Verb agreement, Verb-Object word order, Definiteness, The Bottleneck Hypothesis, Persian learners, Second languageen_US
dc.titleThe Acquisition of Functional Morphology, Semantics-Morphology and Syntax by Persian Learners of English The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 Acquisitionen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgavenor
dc.typeMaster thesiseng


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