{"id":816,"date":"2015-05-07T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:40:39","slug":"cllear-seminar-12-may-dr-boping-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/2015\/05\/07\/cllear-seminar-12-may-dr-boping-yuan\/","title":{"rendered":"CLLEAR seminar 12 May: Dr Boping Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the next <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/calr\/events\/seminars\/\">Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR)<\/a> <\/strong>research seminar.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong> 12th May 2015<\/p>\n<p>5.00-7.00pm<\/p>\n<p>Building 46 Lecture Theatre B\/room 2003 (Highfield Campus)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Dr. Boping Yuan (Cambridge University)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:<\/strong> The effect of computational complexity on L1 transfer: evidence from L2\u00a0Chinese attitude-bearing wh-questions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> This talk reports on an empirical study of attitude-bearing\u00a0wh-questions in English speakers\u2019 second language (L2) Chinese. Although\u00a0English and Chinese wh-questions are different in that the wh-word in the\u00a0former moves to the sentence initial position while that in the latter\u00a0stays in situ, the two languages share some characteristics in their\u00a0attitude-bearing wh-questions. It is widely assumed in L2 research that\u00a0first language (L1) structures similar to or the same as those in the\u00a0target language can facilitate the course of L2 acquisition but L1\u00a0structures which are different from the target language interfere with\u00a0successful L2 acquisition. However, the findings in this study show that\u00a0wh-movement in English wh-questions is not transferred into their L2\u00a0Chinese and that the similarities between English and Chinese have very\u00a0limited facilitating functions in English speakers\u2019 handling of Chinese\u00a0attitude-bearing wh-questions. The findings here support Yuan\u2019s (2001)\u00a0argument that L1 transfer is a relative phenomenon in L2 acquisition and\u00a0can be accounted for on the basis of Pr\u00e9vost et al.\u2019s (2014) analysis that\u00a0computation complexity can override L1 influence.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please note: <\/em><\/strong>this seminar will take place in Building 46 Lecture Theatre B\/room 2003 (Highfield Campus)<\/p>\n<p>All welcome!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) research seminar. Tuesday 12th May 2015 5.00-7.00pm Building 46 Lecture Theatre B\/room 2003 (Highfield Campus) &nbsp; Speaker: Dr. Boping Yuan (Cambridge University) Topic: The effect of computational complexity on L1 transfer: evidence from L2\u00a0Chinese attitude-bearing wh-questions Abstract: This talk reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57],"tags":[424230,57041,643859],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-applied-linguistics","tag-chinese","tag-language-acquisition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Sp7t-da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}