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Terminology choice in generative acquisition research: the case of “incomplete acquisition” in heritage language grammars
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Pascual y Cabo & Rothman (2012) and Kupisch & Rothman (2018) argue against the use of term ‘incomplete’ to characterise the grammars of heritage speakers claiming that it reflects a negative evaluation of the linguistic knowledge of these bilingual speakers. We examine the reasons for and against the use of ‘incomplete’ across acquisition contexts and argue that its use is legitimate on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Our goal is to present arguments for using the term, not to evaluate the scientific validity of incomplete acquisition over other possible accounts. Although our conclusion is that the term should not be abandoned, we advocate a position whereby researchers consider the possible negative impact of the terminology they use and how they use it. This position aims to resolve the tension between the need to prioritise scientific effectiveness and the necessity to avoid terminology which can be negatively misconstrued by the general public.
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URL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/427787/ https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/427787/1/Dominguez_Hicks_Slabakova_terminology_SSLA.pdf
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Choice of words matters, but so does scientific accuracy: Reply to peer commentaries
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Untangling locality and orientation constraints in the L2 acquisition of anaphoric binding: a feature-based approach
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Morphology and syntax disassociation in SLA: a study on clitic acquisition in Spanish
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Morphology and syntax dissociation in SLA: A study on clitic acquisition in Spanish
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