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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English
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Ionin, Tania; Montrul, Silvina – Language Learning, 2010
This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the interpretation of plural noun phrases. Languages with articles differ in whether they use bare plurals (English) or definite plurals (Spanish) to express generic interpretation (Chierchia, 1998; Dayal, 2004; among others). It is hypothesized that Spanish-speaking learners of English…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Languages, English, Spanish
Processing Temporal Constraints and Some Implications for the Investigation of Second Language Sentence Processing and Acquisition. Commentary on Baggio
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Roberts, Leah – Language Learning, 2008
Baggio presents the results of an event-related potential (ERP) study in which he examines the processing consequences of reading tense violations such as *"Afgelopen zondag lakt Vincent de kozijnen van zijn landhuis" (*"Last Sunday Vincent paints the window-frames of his country house"). The violation is arguably caused by a mismatch between the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes