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1、LanguageLearningISSN0023-8333Introduction.BeyondtheObvious:DoSecondLanguageLearnersProcessInflectionalMorphology?KiraGorUniversityofMarylandKeywordsinflectionalmorphology;inflection;decomposition;storage;regularandirregularmorphology;morphosyntax;primingGiventhatthisspeci
2、alissueisdevotedtotheacquisitionandprocessingofinflectionalmorphologybysecondlanguage(L2)learners,thequestioninthetitlemayappearredundant.However,recentresearchonfirstlanguage(L1)andL2morphologicalprocessinghaschallengedbasicassumptionsaboutthestatusofinflectionalmorpholo
3、gyinlinguisticprocessingthathadlongbeentakenforgranted.ThepresentissuedemonstrateshowexperimentalparadigmsandtheoreticalpositionsdevelopedinL1andL2researchresultinanewsynergyandadvanceourunderstandingofthecomplexmechanismsimplicatedinmorphologicalprocessing.Thequestion
4、astowhetherL2learnersprocessinflectionalmorphologyincludesseveralsmallerones.First,doesthemorphologicallevelexistinpsy-cholinguisticterms,notjustinlinguisticdescriptions?Second,assumingitexists,doL2learnersrelyonthesamemechanismsasL1speakerswhenprocessinginflectionalmorp
5、hology?Third,whatarethecognitiveandenviron-mentalfactorsunderlyingL2acquisitionofinflectionalmorphology?Thegoalofthisshortintroductionistobrieflyreviewthemaintheoreticalpositionsvis-a-visinflectionalmorphologyandtoidentifypointsofconvergencebetween`researchonL1andL2morpho
6、logicalprocessing.IwouldliketoexpressmydeepgratitudetoMichaelLongforhisgeneroushelpandtoSvetlanaCookandAnnaLukyanchenko,PhDstudentsattheUniversityofMaryland,forassistancewithformattingissues.CorrespondenceconcerningthisarticleshouldbeaddressedtoKiraGor,SchoolofLanguage
7、s,Literatures,andCultures,UniversityofMaryland,3125JimenezHall,CollegePark,MD20742.´Internet:kiragor@umd.eduLanguageLearning60:1,March2010,pp.1–201C2010LanguageLearningResearchClub,UniversityofMichiganGorDoL2LearnersProcessInflectionalMorphology?Threepointsarerelevantf
8、ortheissue’sagenda.First,debatesbetweentheextremepositionsexpressedbythedual-systemandsingle-systemapproachestoinflect
