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Direct linkZegarac, Vlad – Second Language Research, 2004
This article considers the implications of Sperber and Wilson's (1986/95) Relevance Theory for the acquisition of English "the" by second language (L2) learners whose first language (L1) does not have an article system. On the one hand, Relevance Theory provides an explicit characterization of the semantics of "the", which suggests ways of…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Textbooks, Semantics, Language Acquisition
