The acquisition of preposition placement by L1-Cypriot-Greek EFL speakers

This study investigates the preposition placement acquisition by speakers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) with Cypriot Greek as their first language. An experiment was conducted involving all four preposition placement options: preposition stranding, piedpiping, omission, and doubling. Participants exhibited and accepted all options to different extends. In the oral production data elicitation task, the most frequently observed option was pied-piping; in the acceptability judgment task, preposition stranding was the most acceptable option. Clausal complexity increased susceptibility to the ungrammatical options of preposition omission and doubling in both the oral production and the acceptability judgement task.