<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The main question to be investigated is to what extent native speakers of Hungarian understand and acquire the English passive voice, as there is no generalized syntactic passive construction in Hungarian. As we will show, native speakers of Hungarian tend to use the predicative verbal adverbial construction when translating English passive sentences, as this construction is the closest syntactic equivalent of the English passive voice. Another question to be investigated is whether L2 Romanian works as a facilitating factor in the process of acquiring the L3 English passive voice. If all our subjects, Hungarian students living in Romania, were Hungarian-Romanian bilinguals, it would be obvious that knowledge of Romanian helps them in acquiring the English passive. However, as it will be shown, the bilingualism hypothesis is disconfirmed. Still, passive knowledge of Romanian influences to some extent the acquisition of the English passive voice.</p></abstract>

The main question to be investigated is to what extent native speakers of Hungarian understand and acquire the English passive voice, as there is no generalized syntactic passive construction in Hungarian. As we will show, native speakers of Hungarian tend to use the predicative verbal adverbial construction when translating English passive sentences, as this construction is the closest syntactic equivalent of the English passive voice. Another question to be investigated is whether L2 Romanian works as a facilitating factor in the process of acquiring the L3 English passive voice. If all our subjects, Hungarian students living in Romania, were Hungarian-Romanian bilinguals, it would be obvious that knowledge of Romanian helps them in acquiring the English passive. However, as it will be shown, the bilingualism hypothesis is disconfirmed. Still, passive knowledge of Romanian influences to some extent the acquisition of the English passive voice.

L2 Romanian Influence in the Acquisition of the English Passive by L1 Speakers of Hungarian

Department of Humanities Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania)

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The main question to be investigated is to what extent native speakers of Hungarian understand and acquire the English passive voice, as there is no...

L2 Romanian Influence in the Acquisition of the English Passive by L1 Speakers of Hungarian

Published Online: Mar 01, 2015

Page range: 227 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0016

Keywords
passive, SLA, parameter resetting, L2/L3 influence

© 2015 Enikő Tankó

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

L2 Romanian Influence in the Acquisition of the English Passive by L1 Speakers of Hungarian

Published Online: Mar 01, 2015

Page range: 227 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0016

Keywordspassive, SLA, parameter resetting, L2/L3 influence

© 2015 Enikő Tankó

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
passive, SLA, parameter resetting, L2/L3 influence