چکیده:
This paper is a cross-sectional study of the acquisition of English inflections
using retelling and interview tasks. For this purpose 99 subjects were selected.
The research was focused on beginners; however, mid and higher level learners
were tested to check the developmental stages of English inflections. It also
compares and contrasts the structure of Persian and English and finds out
whether Universal Grammar (UG) could account for the acquisition of English
inflections. The analysis of data indicated that UG could account for the
acquisition of English inflections by Persian learners of English.
خلاصه ماشینی:
It seems that the low level learners moved verbs from VP to IP because of Persian subject clitick transfer to English.
Since subject cliticks and tense markers are stronger than those of English then low level learners raise verbs from VP to IP and TP.
Schwartz and Sprouse (1996) refer to second language acquisition data which are similar to the above date and they prove that even the low level subjects have acquired functional categories such as IP or TP (see section 2.
5. An Account of Universal Grammar Theories to the Initial Acquisition of English I discussed the Minimal trees hypothesis proposed by Vainikka and Young –Scholton (1994; 1996a; 1996b) that only lexical categories are present at the earliest stage of second acquisition and functional categories such TP and IP develop in succession (see Figure 3 [Picture] 4.
2. Wh- questions acquisition The Chi-square results indicate that the low level learners produced more "Wh-" non-inverted subject and auxiliary (%61.
The subjects of this study are Persian speaking learners of English and it aims to determine whether the learners'''' L1 structure plays any roll in acquisition of inflections.
The fact that both SAdvVO and SVAdvO are produced by the French-English learners shows, according to Eubank, that the initial representation of L2 English does not have the strong inflectional feature of their L1.
She also raises the question of whether or not the morpheme rankings found using an elicitation technique in the Dulay & Burt studies look like the order of morphemes obtained from spontaneously collected L2 data.