Representational Deficits in SLA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Representational deficits in second language acquisition -- 2. A summary of the papers in this volume -- References -- Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Articles and other determiners in English and Turkish -- 2.1 Prosodic representation of articles and other determiners in English and Turkish -- 2.2 Syntactic representation of articles in Turkish -- 3. Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis (PTH) -- 3.1 General predictions of PTH -- 3.2 Predicted non-target productions -- 4. An alternative hypothesis on the representation of L2 articles -- 4.1 Syntactic misanalysis -- 4.2 Predictions of two accounts of article representation -- 5. Experiment -- 5.1 Methodology -- 5.2 Results -- 5.3 Syntactic misanalysis revisited -- 6. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Articles: definiteness and specificity -- 2.1 Definiteness in English -- 2.2 Specificity in Polynesian languages (Samoan and Sango) -- 3. Three hypotheses relating to L2 article use -- 3.1 The Fluctuation Hypothesis -- 3.2 The Representational Deficit Hypothesis -- 3.2.1 The syntactic licensing of count nouns in English -- 3.3 The Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis -- 4. Mandarin Chinese nominal phrases -- 5. Empirical study -- 5.1 Predictions -- 5.2 Participants -- 5.3 Tasks -- 5.3.1 The forced choice elicitation task -- 5.3.2 Procedure -- 5.3.3 Coding procedure -- 5.3.4 Group results of the forced choice elicitation task -- 5.3.5 Individual results of the forced choice elicitation task -- 5.3.6 The elicited picture description task -- 5.3.7 Participants -- 5.3.8 Coding procedure.

5.3.9 Group results of the elicited picture description task -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Possible explanations for fluctuation -- 6.2 The interpretable and uninterpretable features of DP -- 6.3 Prosodic representation of articles -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Successful features -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb raising and the minimal trees and structure building of Organic Grammar -- 3. Verb raising across languages: the case of French learners of English -- 4. Adverbs and syntactic projections -- 4.1 A reanalysis of adverbs and a reanalysis of the L2 French data -- 4.2 Reassessing the verb raising argument: Applying Organic Syntax -- 4.3 Adverbs in Organic Syntax -- 4.4 The Full House Principle -- 5. Conclusion: Ramifications for the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis -- References -- Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analyses of dou and the wh-word used as a universal quantifier in Chinese -- 2.1 Characteristics of "dou" -- 2.2 What is the status of "dou" when it functions as a distributor? -- 2.3 "Dou" as the head of a functional category -- 3. L2 studies of the Representational Deficit Hypothesis and the Interpretability Hypothesis -- 4. Empirical Study -- 4.1 Research questions -- 4.2 Informants -- 4.3 Materials and procedures -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Results from the acceptability judgment test -- 4.4.2 Results from the sentence interpretation test -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-speaking learners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical accounts -- 2.1 Reflexive binding -- 2.2 Null objects -- 3. Previous research on reflexive binding and null objects in SLA of English.

4. The present study -- 4.1 Subjects -- 4.2 Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Reflexive binding -- 5.2 Null objects -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Native language transfer in L2 acquisition -- 6.2 A new approach involving an interaction of the L1 grammar and the L2 input -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Distribution of pronominal subjects at the syntax-discourse interface -- 2.2 Pronominal feature geometry -- 3. Previous L2 studies -- 4. Predictions -- 5. Method -- 5.1 Corpus -- 5.2 Subjects -- 5.3 Software (concordancer) -- 5.4 Data analysis -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Syntax and information status of the subject -- 6.2 Person and number of the subject -- 6.3 Information status and pragmaticality of the subject -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in Spanish and Greek L2 grammars -- 1. On L2 acquisition: optionality, learnability and features -- 2. On clitics -- 2.1 Clitic doubling in Spanish -- 2.2 Clitic doubling in Greek -- 2.3 Clitic left dislocation (CLLD) -- 3. Research questions -- 4. Methodology -- 5. The test results -- 5.1 The clitic doubling test -- 5.2 The co-occurrence of a clitic and an NP in clitic left dislocation -- 6. Summary and discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Aspect and the Interpretation of Motion Verbs in L2 Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Manner-of-motion verbs in Greek -- 2.1 Aspect and manner of motion verbs -- 2.2 The syntax of manner of motion verbs -- 3. Previous studies -- 4. The empirical study -- 4.1 Predictions -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.3 Method -- 4.3.1 Materials -- 4.3.2 Procedure -- 4.3.3 Materials -- 4.3.4 Procedure -- 4.4 Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix.

Associating meaning to form in advanced L2 speakers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interpretations of the present simple and present progressive in English and the présent in French -- 3. The study -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.