Second language acquisition of articles
Subtitle: empirical findings and theoretical implications
By: edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, Roger Hawkins.
Contributors: García Mayo, María del Pilar.; Hawkins, Roger
Series: Language acquisition and language disorders -- v. 49
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027253101; 9789027289117
Subjects: Second language acquisition; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Article
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the interest of article acquisition for theories of SLA / María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins; title: Article choice in L2 English by Spanish speakers : evidence for full transfer / María del Pilar García Mayo; title: Accounting for non-target like performance in L2 English article production by native speakers of Syrian Arabic and French / Ghisseh Sarko; title: 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; title: The processing role of the article choice parameter : evidence from L2 learners of English / Lucy Kyoungsook Kim and Usha Lakshmanan; title: Accounting for patterns of article omissions and substitutions in second language production / Danijela Trenkic; title: Article use and generic reference : parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition / Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul; title: 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; title: Articles in Turkish/English interlanguage revisited : implications of vowel harmony / Heather Goad and Lydia White; title: Article choice and article omission in the L3 German of native speakers of Japanese with L2 English / Carol Jaensch.