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Second Language Acquisition of Articles : Empirical findings and theoretical implications.
Title:
Second Language Acquisition of Articles : Empirical findings and theoretical implications.
Author:
García Mayo, María del Pilar.
ISBN:
9789027289117
Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents:
Second Language Acquisition of Articles -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Part I. Article choice, fluctuation and L1 transfer -- Article choice in L2 English by Spanish speakers -- Introduction -- Literature background -- Definiteness and specificity in English and Spanish -- The present study -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- L2 English article production by Arabic and French speakers -- Introduction -- Overview of previous research -- Cross-linguistic variation -- Hypotheses -- Empirical study -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Questioning the validity of the Article Choice Parameter -- Introduction -- The Article Choice Parameter and its cross-linguistic realization -- L2-English and the settings of the ACP -- The present study -- The results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- The processing role of the Article Choice Parameter -- Introduction -- Article semantics -- The study -- Procedures for data analysis -- Results -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Accounting for patterns of article omissions and substitutions -- Introduction -- Definiteness -- The communicative redundancy of articles -- Learning to use articles in a second language -- Research on patterns of article omissions -- Research on article substitution errors -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Further issues in the representation -- Article use and generic reference -- Introduction -- Background: Plural generics -- Methods -- Tasks -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion and further questions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Variability in the L2 acquisition -- Introduction -- Morphosyntax of DPs in the target and the source languages -- Literature review.

Predictions -- The experiment -- Summary of the findings and discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Articles in Turkish/English interlanguage revisited -- Introduction -- Articles in English and Turkish -- Vowel harmony and the determination of prosodic representation in Turkish/English interlanguage -- Previous findings on L2 Turkish articles -- Interlanguage representation of articles revisited -- Discussion -- References -- Article choice and article omission -- Introduction -- Recent research -- Cross-linguistic differences -- The current study -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Term index -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.
Abstract:
The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese, Russian do not). Languages that have articles also appear to divide into those that realise definiteness (e.g. English) and those that realise specificity (e.g. Samoan). When speakers of one type of language learn an L2 of a different type, issues of central concern to SLA research arise: the nature of L1 influence, the time course of development, ultimate attainment, the relationship between performance and competence, and the role of Universal Grammar. These issues are considered in nine studies, written by researchers whose work is at the forefront of enquiry, that offer new data, new perspectives and new insights into the way L2 speakers acquire articles.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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