Inquiries in Linguistic Development -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Inquiries in linguistic development -- Introduction -- Part I: Learnability and parameter resetting -- Part II: Variability -- Part III: Incomplete ultimate attainment -- References -- Learnability and parameter setting -- `Passive' unaccusative errors in L2 English revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Yusa (2002, 2003) -- 3. Experimental study -- 3.1. Hypotheses -- 3.2. Participants -- 3.3. Task and materials -- 3.4. Results -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Manner-of-motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 English and Japanese -- Motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in English and Japanese -- Motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 acquisition -- Method -- Design -- Participants -- Materials -- Results -- The ESL study -- The JSL study -- Discussion -- The ESL study -- The JSL study -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A -- Example test item in the ESL study -- Appendix B -- Sentences included in the ESL picture-matching task -- Appendix C -- Example test item in the JSL study -- Appendix D -- Sentences included in the JSL picture-matching task -- A semantic parameter with a syntactic trigger in the L2 acquisition of Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies on L2 acquisition of DPs -- 3. The data and their analysis -- 4. Predictions for second language acquisition -- 5. The study -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Tasks and materials -- 5.3. Group results -- 5.4. Individual results -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Investigating the L2 initial state -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic background -- 3. Initial state hypotheses and predictions -- 3.1. Full Transfer -- 3.2. Minimal Trees -- 3.3. Structural Minimality -- 4. The experiment -- 4.1. Participants.

4.2. Procedure -- 4.3. Results -- 4.4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- L1 phonotactic knowledge and the L2 acquisition of alternations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The connection between phonotactics and alternations in acquisition -- 2.1. Studying the acquisition of alternations with L2 artificial language learning -- 3. The experiment -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Subjects -- 3.3. Testing and training -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Variability -- Morphological variability in the development of L2 French morphosyntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impairment in L2 acquisition -- 3. L1 Influence and morphological variability -- 4. The study -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Finiteness errors -- 5.2. Nonfinite forms in finite positions (excluding negation) -- 5.3. Finite forms in nonfinite positions (excluding negation) -- 5.4. Finiteness errors in negative utterances -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Full transfer vs. partial transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic assumptions -- 2.1. English and French -- 2.2. Chinese -- 2.3. Vietnamese -- 2.4. Summary of cross-linguistic facts on the verbal functional domain -- 3. Predictions -- 3.1. Full Transfer Full Access (FTFA) -- 3.2. Minimal Trees (MT) -- 3.3. Valueless Features Hypothesis (VFH) -- 4. Method -- 4.1. Participants -- 4.2. Experimental tasks -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Elicited written production task I: Composition on [1'301past] -- 5.2. Elicited written production task II: Sentence completion on adverb placement and agreement -- 5.3. Preference task I on agreement and [1'301past] -- 5.4. Preference task II on adverb placement -- 6. Summary of results, discussion and conclusion -- 6.1. L1 Vietnamese-L2 French initial state -- 6.2. L1 Chinese-L2 English-L3 French initial state -- Notes -- References -- Appendix.

A representational licensing-based account of asymmetries in the L2 acquisition of place -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representation, licensing and predictions for L2 acquisition -- 2.1. Binarity and the representation of final consonant clusters -- 2.2. Representation of place in consonants -- 2.3. Phonetic interpretation of phonological outputs -- 2.4. Phonological licensing: Asymmetries and parasitic licensing -- 2.5. Representation-based predictions for the acquisition of new, position-sensitive contrasts -- 3. L2 acquisition of place -- 3.1. Acquiring place in the dependent of a branching onset -- 3.2. Acquiring place in coda: Parasitic licensing -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Processing reduced relative versus main verb ambiguity in English as a second language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. The experiment with reduced relative clauses -- 3.1. Research questions -- 3.2. Participants -- 3.3. Six tasks -- 4. Results -- 4.1. Proficiency scores -- 4.2. Accuracy -- 4.3. Processing -- 4.4. Working memory and processing -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- Appendix -- Formalism and functionalism working together? -- 1. Background -- 2. Grammatical approach -- 3. Performance approach -- 4. Discourse-pragmatics approach -- 5. Interplay between approaches -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Incomplete ultimate attainment -- L2 acquisition of pragmatic and syntactic constraints in the use of overt and null subject pronouns -- 1. L1 transfer in end-state L2 grammars -- 2. The null subject phenomenon -- 2.1. Empty categories and their overt counterparts -- 2.2. The overt pronoun constraint -- 3. Turkish: A null subject language -- 3.1. Grammatical sketch -- 4. Research questions -- 5. The study -- 5.1. The participants -- 5.2. Tests -- 6. Results and discussion.

6.1. Test 1: Picture selection task -- 6.2. Test 2: Written interpretation task -- 6.3. Test 3: Truth value judgment task (story task) -- 6.4. Test 4: Picture identification-listening task -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- L2 end state grammars and incomplete acquisition of Spanish CLLD constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Topic constructions in Spanish and English -- 3. Sorace's theory of optionality -- 4. Predictions for L2 -- 5. Experiment -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Experimental tasks -- 5.3. Results -- 6. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Knowledge of clitic doubling in Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dative clitic doubling in Spanish -- 2.1. Restrictions on incorporation in Spanish -- 3. Datives in English -- 4. Second language acquisition and knowledge of clitic doubling -- 4.1. Theoretical approaches to language acquisition -- 5. Methodology -- 5.1. Participants -- 5.2. Description of the test -- 6. Analysis of the results -- 6.1. Knowledge of basic incorporation -- 6.2. Results: Basic preposition incorporation -- 6.3. Constraints on incorporation: Affectedness -- 6.4. Constraint against double incorporation -- 6.5. Results: Affectedness and double incorporation -- 6.6. Constraint against incorporation in intransitive sentences -- 6.7. Results: Double incorporation -- 6.8. Incorporation and possessors -- 6.9. Results: Possessors -- 7. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- Incomplete acquisition as a feature of bilingual and L2 grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Simultaneous bilingual acquisition -- 2.1. The early years -- 2.2. The adult years -- 3. Incomplete acquisition in L1 and L2 -- 3.1. Some similarities -- 3.2. Some differences -- 4. Implications for the nature of bilingual grammars -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Index.