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Response article Full transfer vs. developmentally moderated transfer: a reply to Bohnacker

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Manfred Pienemann

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Abstract

Ute Bohnacker's (2006) article on the acquisition of the verb second (V2) property in German by native speakers of Swedish (also a V2 language) is an attempted rebuttal of Hakansson et al.'s (2002) work on first language (L1) transfer and aspects of the underlying theory on which the work is based: Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998). The article by Hakansson et al. presented empirical evidence from a similar population of learners (native language Swedish, target language German), showing that V2 is not transferred at the initial state. Unfortunately, Bohnacker misrepresents key aspects of our work on L1 transfer and, paradoxically, her own data constitute empirical evidence supporting our position, as we show in this response.

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Author(s): Pienemann M, Hakansson G

Publication type: Editorial

Publication status: Published

Journal: Second Language Research

Year: 2007

Volume: 23

Issue: 4

Pages: 485-493

ISSN (print): 0267-6583

ISSN (electronic): 1477-0326

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658307077080332

DOI: 10.1177/0267658307077080332

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