Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners*

Ionin, Tania; Zubizarreta, María Luisa; Philippov, Vadim

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“…Peters' Russian participants may have performed less well than IKW's Russian participants because hers had been taught English in a classroom setting, while IKW's had also received naturalistic input while living in the United States. However, the Russian adult L2 learners tested in Russia by Ionin, Zubizarreta & Philippov (2009) had also been taught English in a classroom setting, and they performed like IKW's Russian participants in the United States.…”

Section: Article Choice In English By Adult L2 Learners Of An L1 Withmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tryzna (2009) revealed that the specificity distinction is made with indefinites only: le is used in definites and specific indefinites, and se is used in non-specific indefinites only. These new data led Ionin, Zubizarreta & Philippov (2009) to revise the original account: article misuse in L2 English by speakers of an L1 without articles is now predicted to arise in the [−d, +s] context only. Ionin, Zubizarreta & Philippov (2009) propose that less explicit tasks (e.g.…”

Section: Universal Grammar the Article-choice Parameter Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These new data led Ionin, Zubizarreta & Philippov (2009) to revise the original account: article misuse in L2 English by speakers of an L1 without articles is now predicted to arise in the [−d, +s] context only. Ionin, Zubizarreta & Philippov (2009) propose that less explicit tasks (e.g. written narrative production) may tap into linguistic competence differently from more explicit tasks (e.g.…”

Section: Universal Grammar the Article-choice Parameter Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Article use in L2 English by L1 Russian and L1 German speakers

Schönenberger

2014

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

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Article misuse and omission are common errors in article use in L2 English. A particularly influential theory concerned with article misuse is that of Ionin (2003aIonin ( , 2003b, whose basic assumption is that, in L2 acquisition, adult learners still have access to Universal Grammar. Central to her theory is the concept of the Article-Choice Parameter, which is set to either definiteness or specificity in article-based languages. According to Ionin's Fluctuation Hypothesis, speakers of a language without articles fluctuate between the two settings of this parameter and produce systematic errors in article choice. Speakers of an L1 with articles have been shown to transfer the parameter value from their L1 to L2 English. This paper tests the predictions made by Ionin's account, based on data from an empirical study with a group of German speakers and two groups of Russian speakers. One of the Russian groups had studied English for a longer period of time, and at university level, and also had knowledge of another L2 with articles besides English. The results from this study do not provide clear support for Ionin's account. The German group rarely misused articles, as predicted, but only one of the Russian groups showed fluctuation. The Russian group with fewer years of English study and generally no knowledge of another L2 with articles showed variable patterns of article misuse and also often omitted articles. An explanation of why the two Russian groups differed is proposed.

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Section: Article Choice In English By Adult L2 Learners Of An L1 Withmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Universal Grammar the Article-choice Parameter Andmentioning

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Section: Universal Grammar the Article-choice Parameter Andmentioning

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Article use in L2 English by L1 Russian and L1 German speakers

Schönenberger

2014

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

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“…Er is veel cross-linguïstisch onderzoek uitgevoerd naar het lidwoordgebruik van T2-leerders (Sleeman 2004;Guella, Deprez & Sleeman 2008;Ionin, Zubizarreta & Philippov 2009). Sleeman (2004) richtte zich op bepaaldheid en specificiteit bij lidwoorden in een T2 (cf.…”

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Lidwoorden op z’n Tsjechisch: Problematisch lidwoordgebruik van volwassen Tsjechische leerders Nederlands

Kluková

2016

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A b s t r a c t. Deze bijdrage analyseert het gebruik van het lidwoord in het Nederlands door volwassen Tsjechische leerders. Aangezien het Nederlands de categorie lidwoorden bezit en Tsjechisch, zoals de meeste Slavische talen met uitzondering van Bulgaars en Macedonisch, niet, is het verwerven van dit grammaticale fenomeen zeer problematisch. Doel van deze bijdrage is om de belangrijkste problemen te definiëren die bij de verwerving van lidwoordgebruik in het Nederlands door Tsjechische leerders opduiken. De bijdrage geeft eerst kort recent onderzoek weer naar de tweede taalverwerving van lidwoorden op basis van de mentale en behavioristische dichotomie. Voorts wordt het lidwoordgebruik in het Nederlands beschreven en de manier om dergelijke problemen in het Tsjechisch uit te drukken. Bepaalde kenmerken van lidwoorden, zoals bepaaldheid, specificiteit en grammaticaal geslacht worden bediscussieerd. Tenslotte wordt een foutenanalyse uitgevoerd om de grootste struikelblokken van het lidwoordgebruik in het Nederlands door volwassen Tsjechische leerders te bepalen.Trefwoorden: lidwoord; bepaaldheid; specificiteit; grammaticaal geslacht; Nederlands; Tsjechisch; transfer; foutenanalyse.

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“…In order to do so we have used four different contexts of definiteness and specificity: [+DEF +SPEC], [+DEF -SPEC], [-DEF +SPEC], and [-DEF -SPEC]. The experimental design was inspired by Ionin (2004 and2009) and her work on the L2 acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Russian and Korean. In these tasks, a context was given and the participants had to introduce a definite or indefinite article.…”

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Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms

Velnić

2015

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Croatian adjectives have two forms in the masculine gender: the Long (L) form and the Short (S) form. The main distributional difference is that the Short adjective can be in predicative position and the Long one cannot, while both can be in attributive position. This difference between attributive and predicative can be related to a variety of other cross-linguistic distributions concerning adjectives (Alexiadou 2001). It has been stated (Aljović 2002, Trenkić 2004) for (Serbo-)Croatian that the two forms mark a distinction in definiteness or specificity with the long one being [+DEF/+SPEC] and the Short one [-DEF/-SPEC]. A survey on 32 adults was conducted in order to obtain more information about the distribution of the two forms in general; to find out whether it is definiteness or specificity that is being marked by the Long form; and to check whether one of the forms (the Long one) can function as a subject of a sentence in the absence of a noun. The results of the statistical analysis show that the predicative/attributive distinction is not as strict as described in the previous literature (Silić and Pranjković 2007); and that the Long form is related to specificity but does not express it. I propose an analysis that builds on cross-linguistic parallelisms described in Alexiadou 2001 and I propose that Croatian Long and Short distributional patterns are caused by the same factors as Noun Raising in Romance and Determiner Spreading in Greek, even though we find that this is not as strict as in those languages. However, it is only with expanding our cross-linguistic analysis to more languages that we can fully understand the nature of what these subtle differences of adjectives mark.

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Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners*

Cited by 61 publications

References 53 publications

Article use in L2 English by L1 Russian and L1 German speakers

Article use in L2 English by L1 Russian and L1 German speakers

Lidwoorden op z’n Tsjechisch: Problematisch lidwoordgebruik van volwassen Tsjechische leerders Nederlands

Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms

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