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Linguistics

Representational Deﬁcits in SLA
Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins
Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung andMichael Sharwood Smith
Gunma Prefectural Women’s University / University of Hong Kong /Heriot-Watt University
The main focus of this collection is to explore
the question of “representational deficits” insecond language acquisition, currently amuch-debated topic. The volume is intended
as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading
scholar in generative second language
acquisition, whose research has been devoted
to explaining lack of native-like successin terms of representational deficits. The
papers in this volume feature a range ofstudies, all undertaken within a generative
linguistic framework, which investigate
various properties of L grammar bearing
on the question of whether or not there arerepresentational deficits in the post-critical-period L learners’ grammar.
The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is thatthey provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L learner underinvestigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, ] . xxv,  pp.
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Table of contents
Dedication
PrefaceAcknowledgements
Introduction
Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Mike Sharwood Smith
Prosodic transfer and the representation ofdeterminers in Turkish-English interlanguage
Heather Goad and Lydia White
Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers’ L article use
Neal Snape
Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in Lacquisition under an Organic Grammar approach
Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten
Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent
target-likeness in second language: Evidence
from wh-words used as universal quantifiers in
English and Japanese speakers’ L Chinese
Boping Yuan
Acquisition of the local binding characteristics
of English reflexives and the obligatory status ofEnglish objects by Chinese-speaking learners
Lin Jiang
Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface:evidence from the CEDEL corpus
Cristóbal Lozano
Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation inSpanish and Greek L grammars
Teresa Parodi
Aspect and the Interpretation of Motion Verbs in L Greek
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli and Despina PapadopoulouAssociating meaning to form in advanced Lspeakers: An investigation into the acquisition of the
English present simple and present progressive
Sarah Ann Liszka
Name index
Subject index“This book is an excellent example of how Roger Hawkins’s work has inﬂuenced the second language acquisition (SLA) ﬁeld. The nine chapters that comprisethe volume cover diﬀerent linguistic interfaces (syntax-phonology, syntax-morphology, syntax-semantics and syntax-pragmatics) and an interesting array ofﬁrst and second language combinations. They are all solidly grounded in empirical work and focus on the much-debated issue of representational deﬁcits inSLA. I believe the book makes a timely contribution to the ﬁeld and will be read with great interest by both researchers and advanced graduate students.”
María de Pilar García Mayo, The University of the Basque Country“This is an excellent volume compiling current research studies that explore the L2 acquisition of a variety of morpho-syntactic properties
by making reference to the question of UG access and the transfer of L1-based grammatical representation into the L2. The volume
will make a unique and important contribution to our understanding of the nature of deﬁcits observed in L2 acquisition.”
Ayse Gürel, Bogazici University“Failure to learn syntactic properties of an L2 at advanced levels of proﬁciency presents acquisition theories with a conundrum. The papers in thisvolume address one account of this failure: representational deﬁcits. Rich in data, presenting many diﬀerent learning problems, of L1-L2 pairs, and wellarticulated theoretical solutions, they make a worthy tribute to Roger Hawkins’s signiﬁcant contributions to second language research.”
Susanne Carroll, University of Calgary

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