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Response article Full transfer vs. developmentally moderated transfer: a reply to Bohnacker

Paderborn University and Newcastle University, pienemann{at}zitmail.upb.de

Gisela HÅkansson

Lund University

Ute Bohnacker's (2006) article on the acquisition of the verb second (V2) property in German by native speakers of Swedish (also a V2 language) is an attempted rebuttal of Håkansson et al.'s (2002) work on first language (L1) transfer and aspects of the underlying theory on which the work is based: Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998). The article by Håkansson et al. presented empirical evidence from a similar population of learners (native language Swedish, target language German), showing that V2 is not transferred at the initial state. Unfortunately, Bohnacker misrepresents key aspects of our work on L1 transfer and, paradoxically, her own data constitute empirical evidence supporting our position, as we show in this response.

Key Words: transfer in L2 • Processability Theory • L2 vs. L3 German • verb second • initial state

Second Language Research, Vol. 23, No. 4, 485-493 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0267658307080332


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