Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014
Abstract
The paper focuses on two typologically different languages - analytical Chinese and synthetic Czech - and addresses the question whether and in what ways language typology influences language acquisition. First, it gives an overview of key features of the two language types and presents the basic characteristics of Chinese.
Then, it introduces and explains the notion of language transfer and discusses objective and subjective difficulty of different laguage phenomena and the impact of language typology on L2 acquisition. Finally, the importance of the learners' corpus of Czech CzeSL for the research of learners' interlanguage and the verification of presented hypotheses is pointed out.