Generative SLA in the age of minimalism : features, interfaces, and beyond : selected proceedings of the 15th Generative approaches to second language acquisition conference / edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya, Casilde A. Isabelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leal, Tania, editor.

Shimanskaya, Elena, editor.

Isabelli, Casilde A., editor.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; Volume 67.

Language acquisition and language disorders ; Volume 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Congresses.

Second language acquisition.

Generative grammar--Congresses.

Generative grammar.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

Summary:

This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019.

Contents:

Intro

Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

References

L2 acquisition of syntax

Intervention effects in L1 and L2 English raising: Evidence from acceptability judgments and response times

1. Introduction

2. Raising and minimality

2.1 Italian/English asymmetry on raising across DPs

2.2 Italian/English symmetry on raising with topic DPs

2.3 Smuggling approach to English raising ( Collins, 2005)

3. Intervention effects in the L2 acquisition research on raising

4. The present study

4.1 Methods

4.2 Results

5. Discussion

5.1 Intervention effects in the representation of L1 and L2 English raising

5.2 Intervention effects in L1 and L2 processing of English raising

6. Conclusions

Explaining the difficulty with L2 acquisition of scope interpretation by speakers of a scope-rigid language

2. Syntax of scope

2.1 English

2.2 Japanese

3. Scope interpretation in L2 acquisition

3.1 Previous studies

3.2 Hypotheses

4. Experiment

4.1 Participants

4.2 Task

4.3 Predictions

5. Results

6. Discussion

6.1 JLEs' knowledge on quantifiers and their scope

6.2 Evaluating the hypotheses

6.3 Implications

7. Conclusion

Definiteness and argument position in the interpretation of bare nouns: From L1 Mandarin to L2 English

1.1 A look at (in)definiteness in article-less languages

1.2 Diagnosing (in)definiteness in English

1.3 The (in)definiteness of Mandarin bare nouns

1.4 The role of syntactic position

2. Articles in second language acquisition

2.1 L2 article acquisition from the perspectives of AH and UH.

2.2 Article omission in L2 development: Systematicity vs. randomness

3. The study

3.1 Methodology

3.2 Predictions

3.3 Analyses

4. Results

4.1 Overall acceptability of bare nouns

4.2 Acceptability of bare nouns by discourse context and syntactic position

5.1 Definiteness and the singular-plural distinction

5.2 Definiteness and topicality

6. Conclusion

L1-Mandarin L2-English learners' acquisition of English double-quantifier scope

2. Scope in English, Mandarin and L2-acquisition

2.1 English and Mandarin scope

2.2 Experimental studies on English and Mandarin scope

2.2 Previous L2 and heritage language studies on scope

3. Scope in L2-English: The role of positive evidence

3.1 Positive evidence and L2-acquisition

3.2 Research question

4. Method

4.1 Task materials

4.2 Procedure

4.3 Participants

5.1 Descriptive results

5.2 Statistical analysis

L2 acquisition at interfaces

Feature dependency and the poverty of the stimulus in the acquisition of L2 German plural allomorphy

2. Interfaces in SLA

3. Multiple exponence versus allomorphy

3.1 Feature geometry

4. SLA and allomorphy

4.1 Methodology

5.1 Errors X word type: T1

5.2 Errors X word type: T2

5.3 No impossible turkish grammars

5.4 No impossible German grammars

5.5 Poverty of the stimulus

Development of L2 prosody: The case of information focus

2. Realizing information focus in English and Japanese

2.1 Information focus marking in English

2.2 Information focus marking in Japanese

2.3 Research questions

3. Experiments

3.1 Comprehension task

3.2 Perception task.

3.3 Production task

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Funding

Appendix. Nine test tokens used in the experiment

Transfer of prosodic representation: L1 Bengali production of L2 English regular simple past tense

2. Theoretical background to the study

2.1 Prosodic representation of English regular simple past tense

2.2 Interim summary

2.3 Prosodic representation of Bengali past tense

2.4 Minimality requirements in Bengali and English

2.5 Interim summary and discussion

3. The study: Suppliance of regular simple past inflection by L1 Bengali speakers of L2 English

3.1 Predictions

3.2 Participants

3.3 Stimuli and tasks

4.1 Summary of results

Appendix A. LV verbs (including diphthong) n = 33

Appendix B. SV verbs (including diphthong) n = 31

Impact of previously learned languages

The role of L1 Norwegian and L2 English in the acquisition of verb placement in L3 German

2. Theoretical background

2.1 Transfer in L2 and L3 word order

2.2 Verb placement in Norwegian, English and German

3. Research questions and predictions

3.1 Research questions

4.2 Materials and procedure

5.1 L3 German

5.2 L2 English

5.3 Relationship between L2 English and L3 German

Feature reconfiguration at the syntax-discourse interface: L2 acquisition of Italian CLLD

2. Syntax and properties of left dislocated objects

2.1 Object left dislocation constructions

2.2 The interpretative properties of CLLD in Italian and Romanian

2.3 Assignment of [+anaphor] and [+specific]

3. Feature acquisition and feature reconfiguration.

4. Research question and feature reconfiguration

5. The experiment

5.1 Participants

5.2 Task 1: Acceptability judgments

5.3 Task 2: Written elicitation

Exploring extra-linguistic factors and their impact on L2 acquisition

Interference-based and capacity-based approaches to working memory in second language sentence processing

2. Working memory in L2 sentence processing

2.1 Capacity-based approaches to L2 sentence processing

2.2 Interference-based approaches to L2 sentence processing

3. Characterising and measuring L2 individual differences

3.1 Memory capacity in L2 processing

3.2 Memory interference in L2 processing

3.3 Retrieval cues in processing and acquisition

3.4 Task performance and characterising individual differences

4. Conclusion

Heritage language speakers inform the critical period hypothesis for first and second language acquisition

2. Age effects in child bilingual acquisition: Maturation or language exposure?

3. Are heritage speakers like second language learners?

4. The impact of age of acquisition in different linguistic modules

4.1 Phonology

4.2 Syntax and morphology

4.3 Processing morphology

A different type of RC attachment resolution: Comparing bilingual and trilingual processing

2. Theoretical motivation

3. Method

3.1 Participants

3.2 Materials

3.3 Procedure

3.4 Data analysis

3.5 Results

5. Conclusions

Appendix. Statistical analysis, full output

Subject index.

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