Second language acquisition of articles : empirical findings and theoretical implications / edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, Roger Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Mayo, María del Pilar.

Hawkins, Roger (Roger D.)

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 49.

Language acquisition and language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Article.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: the interest of article acquisition for theories of SLA / María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins

Article choice in L2 English by Spanish speakers: evidence for full transfer / María del Pilar García Mayo

Accounting for non-target like performance in L2 English article production by native speakers of Syrian Arabic and French / Ghisseh Sarko

Questioning the validity of the article choice parameter and the fluctuation hypothesis: evidence from L2 English article use by L1 Polish and L1 Mandarin Chinese speakers / Marta Tryzna

The processing role of the article choice parameter: evidence from L2 learners of English / Lucy Kyoungsook Kim and Usha Lakshmanan

Accounting for patterns of article omissions and substitutions in second language production / Danijela Trenkic

Article use and generic reference: parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition / Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul

Variability in the L2 acquisition of Norwegian DPs: an evaluation of some current SLA models / Fufen Jin, Tor A. Åfarli, and Wim A. van Dommelen

Articles in Turkish/English interlanguage revisited: implications of vowel harmony / Heather Goad and Lydia White

Article choice and article omission in the L3 German of native speakers of Japanese with L2 English / Carol Jaensch.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245329

9781282245327

1282245325

9789027289117

9027289115

OCLC:

460654416