Some notes on the shallow structure hypothesis
- Since the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) was first put forward in 2006, it has inspired a growing body of research on grammatical processing in nonnative (L2) speakers. More than 10 years later, we think it is time for the SSH to be reconsidered in the light of new empirical findings and current theoretical assumptions about human language processing. The purpose of our critical commentary is twofold: to clarify some issues regarding the SSH and to sketch possible ways in which this hypothesis might be refined and improved to better account for L1 and L2 speakers’ performance patterns.
| Author details: | Harald ClahsenORCiDGND, Claudia FelserORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263117000250 |
| ISSN: | 0272-2631 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1545 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Studies in second language acquisition |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2017 |
| Publication year: | 2017 |
| Release date: | 2021/10/06 |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| First page: | 693 |
| Last Page: | 706 |
| Funding institution: | Alexander-von-Humboldt ProfessorshipAlexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
