Table Of ContentSecond 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
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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.)
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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).
