| An 18-month project (February 2001 - August 2002), funded by ESRC,
investigating the changes occurring in the native language syntax of highly
profiient second language speakers who began acquiring the second language
in adulthood. The subjects were native speakers of Greek and Italian; the
specific hypothesis tested was that "interpretable" syntactic
features (those which make an essential contribution to meaning) are more
vulnerable to attrition than non-interpretable features (those relevant
only to the morphosyntax). |
