Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders) PDF
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Second Language Acquisition of Articles Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (LALD) Volumes in this series provide a forum for research contributing to theories of language acquisition (first and second, child and adult), language learnability, language attrition and language disorders. Series Editors Harald Clahsen Lydia White University of Essex McGill University Editorial Board Melissa F. Bowerman Luigi Rizzi Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, University of Siena Nijmegen Bonnie D. Schwartz Katherine Demuth University of Hawaii at Manoa Brown University Antonella Sorace Wolfgang U. Dressler University of Edinburgh Universität Wien Karin Stromswold Nina Hyams Rutgers University University of California at Los Angeles Jürgen Weissenborn Jürgen M. Meisel Universität Potsdam Universität Hamburg Frank Wijnen William O’Grady Utrecht University University of Hawaii Mabel Rice University of Kansas Volume 49 Second Language Acquisition of Articles. Empirical findings and theoretical implications Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins Second Language Acquisition of Articles Empirical findings and theoretical implications Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo University of the Basque Country Roger Hawkins University of Essex John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Second language acquisition of articles : empirical findings and theoretical implications / edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, Roger Hawkins. p. cm. (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, issn 0925-0123 ; v. 49) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Second language acquisition. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general--Article. I. García Mayo, María del Pilar. II. Hawkins, Roger (Roger D.) P118.2.S4325 2009 401'.93--dc22 2009019148 isbn 978 90 272 5310 1 (Hb; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 8911 7 (eb) © 2009 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents List of editors and contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: The interest of article acquisition for theories of SLA 1 María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins Part I. Article choice, fluctuation and L1 transfer in the acquisition of articles by L2 speakers Article choice in L2 English by Spanish speakers: Evidence for full transfer 13 María del Pilar García Mayo L2 English article production by Arabic and French speakers 37 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 67 Marta Tryzna The processing role of the Article Choice Parameter: Evidence from L2 learners of English 87 Lucy Kyoungsook Kim and Usha Lakshmanan Accounting for patterns of article omissions and substitutions in second language production 115 Danijela Trenkic Part II. Further issues in the representation and use of articles by L2 speakers Article use and generic reference: Parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition 147 Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul vi Second Language Acquisition of Articles Variability in the L2 acquisition of Norwegian DPs: An evaluation of some current SLA models 175 Fufen Jin, Tor A. Åfarli, and Wim A. van Dommelen Articles in Turkish/English interlanguage revisited: Implications of vowel harmony 201 Heather Goad and Lydia White Article choice and article omission in the L3 German of native speakers of Japanese with L2 English 233 Carol Jaensch Author index 265 Language index 269 Term index 271 List of editors and contributors (alphabetically ordered) Tor A. Åfarli Roger Hawkins Department of Scandinavian Languages Department of Language & Linguistics and Comparative Literature (INL) University of Essex Norwegian University of Science Wivenhoe Park and Technology Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ 7491 Trondheim United Kingdom Norway [email protected] Tania Ionin Department of Linguistics Wim A. van Dommelen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Scandinavian Languages 4080 Foreign Language Building and Comparative Literature (INL) 707 S Mathews Avenue, MC-168 Norwegian University of Science Urbana, IL 61801 and Technology USA 7491 Trondheim [email protected] Norway [email protected] Carol Jaensch Department of Language and Linguistics María del Pilar García Mayo University of Essex Departamento de Filología Inglesa Wivenhoe Park Universidad del País Vasco Colchester CO4 3SQ Paseo de la Universidad 5 United Kingdom 01006 Vitoria [email protected] Spain [email protected] Fufen Jin Department of Scandinavian Languages Heather Goad and Comparative Literature (INL) Department of Linguistics Norwegian University of Science McGill University and Technology 1085 Penfield Avenue 7491 Trondheim Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A7 Norway Canada [email protected] [email protected] viii Second Language Acquisition of Articles Lucy Kyoungsook Kim Danijela Trenkic 3601 Watt Way, GFS 301 Department of Educational Studies USC Linguistics Department University of York Los Angeles, CA 90089 Heslington YO10 5DD USA United Kingdom [email protected] [email protected] Usha Lakshmanan Marta Tryzna LSII 216 Department of Linguistics Southern Illinois University The University of Iowa Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 569 English Philosophy Building USA Iowa City, Iowa 52242 [email protected] USA [email protected] Silvina Montrul Department of Linguistics and Department Lydia White of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Department of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign McGill University 4080 Foreign Language Building 1085 Penfield Avenue 707 S Mathews Avenue, MC-176 Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A7 Urbana, IL 61801 Canada USA [email protected] [email protected] Ghisseh Sarko Department of Language and Linguistics University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom [email protected] Acknowledgements We are grateful to all the contributors to this volume, without whom this book would not have been possible. We are also grateful to the Language Acquisition and Language Disorders series editors, Lydia White and Harald Clahsen, and to Kees Vaes at John Benjamins for their advice during the preparation of the manuscript. Last, but not least, we would like to thank the following colleagues for their extremely helpful evaluations of the different contributions. They are (in alphabetical order): Lourdes Díaz, Nigel Duffield, Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, Yuko Goto Butler, Jonas Granfeldt, Holger Hopp, Paula Kempchinsky, Joaquim Kuong, Juana M. Liceras, Mireia Llinàs, Heather Marsden, Corrine McCarthy, Teresa Parodi, Dan Robertson, Laura Sabourin, Teresa Satterfield, Roumyana Slabakova, David Stringer, Margaret Thomas and Sharon Unsworth. The first editor also gratefully acknowledges support from the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Grants HUM2006-09775-C02-01/FILO and CSD2007-00012) and the Departamento de Educación, Universidades e Investigación of the Basque Government (Grant IT-202-07).
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