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24007431 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LALD 47 Eb 15 9789027289995 06 10.1075/lald.47 13 2008045265 DG 002 02 01 LALD 02 0925-0123 Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 47 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Representational Deficits in SLA</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins</Subtitle> 01 lald.47 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.47 1 B01 Neal Snape Snape, Neal Neal Snape Gunma Prefectural Women's University 2 B01 Yan-kit Ingrid Leung Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid Yan-kit Ingrid Leung University of Hong Kong 3 B01 Michael Sharwood Smith Sharwood Smith, Michael Michael Sharwood Smith Heriot-Watt University 01 eng 278 xxv 250 LAN009000 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.LA Language acquisition 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-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 success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are representational deficits in the post-critical-period L2 learners’ grammar. The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is that they provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L2 learner under investigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment. <br /> 05 Overall, however, this is serious work on a serious subject, and anyone interested in the question of failure to converge on the target grammar would do well to take a look at it. Kevin R. Gregg, Momoyama Gakuin University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 32(3): 508-510 05 This book is an excellent example of how Roger Hawkins’s work has influenced the second language acquisition (SLA) field. The nine chapters that comprise the volume cover different linguistic interfaces (syntax-phonology, syntax-morphology, syntax-semantics and syntax-pragmatics) and an interesting array of first and second language combinations. They are all solidly grounded in empirical work and focus on the much-debated issue of representational deficits in SLA. 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 05 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 05 Failure to learn syntactic properties of an L2 at advanced levels of proficiency presents acquisition theories with a conundrum. The papers in this volume address one account of this failure: <i>representational deficits</i>. Rich in data, presenting many different learning problems, of L1-L2 pairs, and well-articulated theoretical solutions, they make a worthy tribute to Roger Hawkins’s significant contributions to second language research. Susanne Carroll, University of Calgary 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lald.47.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027253088.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027253088.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lald.47.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lald.47.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lald.47.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lald.47.hb.png 10 01 JB code lald.47.01ded vii 1 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Dedication</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.02pre ix xii 4 Miscellaneous 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.01ack xiii 1 Miscellaneous 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acknowledgements</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.03sna xv xxv 11 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal Snape Snape, Neal Neal Snape Gunma Prefectural Women’s University 2 A01 Yan-kit Ingrid Leung Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid Yan-kit Ingrid Leung University of Hong Kong 3 A01 Michael Sharwood Smith Sharwood Smith, Michael Michael Sharwood Smith Heriot-Watt University 10 01 JB code lald.47.04goa 1 26 26 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage</TitleText> 1 A01 Heather Goad Goad, Heather Heather Goad McGill University 2 A01 Lydia White White, Lydia Lydia White McGill University 01 Problems with the second language (L2) acquisition of articles in Turkish-English interlanguage are examined, specifically omission, substitution of other determiners in place of articles, overuse of stressed articles and differential treatment of articles in DPs with and without adjectives. Trenkic’s (2007) syntactic misanalysis account is argued against, that difficulties with articles for L2 English speakers from L1s like Turkish and Serbian stem from the absence of DP in the L1 grammar. Instead, in accordance with the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis, it is proposed that L1 prosodic representations underlie these problems; L2 learners are argued to have difficulty in producing functional morphology in target-like fashion when the L2 requires a prosodic representation that is unavailable in the L1 grammar. 10 01 JB code lald.47.05sna 27 51 25 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal Snape Snape, Neal Neal Snape Gunma Prefectural Women’s University 01 This paper attempts to explore the difficulties Chinese speakers have with the acquisition of English articles by situating itself within three hypotheses by using two tasks; a written forced choice elicitation task and an oral elicited picture description task. Our findings from the first task are consistent with the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Our findings from the second task are not fully consistent with the Representational Deficit Hypothesis or the strong interpretation of the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis as omission of articles is low. This indicates that L2 learners are perhaps able to access uninterpretable features and target-like prosodic representations even at intermediate levels, which is consistent with the view of full access to syntax and phonological structures via Universal Grammar. 10 01 JB code lald.47.06vai 53 68 16 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach</TitleText> 1 A01 Anne Vainikka Vainikka, Anne Anne Vainikka Johns Hopkins University 2 A01 Martha Young-Scholten Young-Scholten, Martha Martha Young-Scholten Newcastle University 01 Under Organic Grammar (Vainikka and Young-Scholten 2005; 2007), the building of L2 syntactic structure is constrained by UG in interaction with primary linguistic data. On the basis of verb raising, we argue against the partial UG availability pursued in Hawkins and Chan (1997) in their Failed Functional Features Hypothesis, whose refinement by Hawkins and Hattori (2006) states that only those uninterpretable syntactic features present in the learner’s L1 remain accessible for L2 acquisition. After summarizing UG-driven L2 German verb raising, we consider French/English adverb placement data pointing to L1-driven verb raising (White, 1991a, b; Schwartz, 1996). However, absence of Frenchlike raising in questions and negation (White 1992; Eubank 1994) requires an alternative account. Based on Vainikka’s (2007) framework which dispenses with Cinque’s (1999) prolific projections, we provide an alternative analysis. 10 01 JB code lald.47.07yua 69 103 35 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language: Evidence from wh-words used as universal quantifiers in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Chinese</TitleText> 1 A01 Boping Yuan Yuan, Boping Boping Yuan University of Cambridge 01 This paper reports on an empirical study examining L2 acquisition of Chinese wh-words used as universal quantifiers (UQs) by Japanese- and Englishspeaking learners. Results from a sentence acceptability judgment test and a sentence interpretation test indicate that wh-words can be acquired as UQs in English and Japanese speakers’ L2 Chinese grammars. However, the acquisition takes place rather late and there is evidence for representational deficit in beginner, intermediate and post-intermediate Japanese learners’ L2 Chinese grammars, i.e., wh-words in subject position can have target-like behaviours, but those in object position cannot. We argue that the underlying L2 Chinese representations in these learners’ L2 Chinese grammars are still divergent from that of the native Chinese grammar in spite of some apparently native-like behaviours. 10 01 JB code lald.47.08jia 105 126 22 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-speaking learners</TitleText> 1 A01 Jiang Lin Lin, Jiang Jiang Lin Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 01 This study investigates whether Chinese speakers can acquire the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects. Chinese allows both the long-distance (LD) and the local binding of reflexives, whereas English only allows the local binding of reflexives. Similarly, Chinese allows both overt and null objects, whereas English only allows overt objects. Even though the two properties involve different types of antecedent-anaphora and operator-variable binding relations, both of them are likely to cause poverty of stimulus for Chinese learners of English. The results of the experiment suggest that the learners’ interpretation of binding of reflexives is more or less native-like because of the availability of the triggering data but the obligatory status of English objects is not acquirable because of the lack of the relevant triggering data. 10 01 JB code lald.47.09loz 127 166 40 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus</TitleText> 1 A01 Cristóbal Lozano Lozano, Cristóbal Cristóbal Lozano 01 Previous research shows that English-speaking learners of Spanish show (i) early sensitivity to the syntactic mechanisms licensing overt and null pronominal subjects, yet (i) persistent and long-lasting deficits when pronominal distribution is constrained by topic/focus at the syntax-discourse interface. It has been assumed that such vulnerability affects the whole set of phi-features of the pronominal paradigm, but I will use near-native corpus evidence to show that the observed deficits are selective, i.e., they do not affect the whole set of phi-features in the pronominal paradigm but rather a subset: due to their representational nature (which is constrained by Universal Grammar), only third person singular animate pronouns are targets for vulnerability, while the rest of the paradigm remains rather stable. 10 01 JB code lald.47.10par 167 185 19 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in Spanish and Greek L2 grammars</TitleText> 1 A01 Teresa Parodi Parodi, Teresa Teresa Parodi University of Cambridge, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics 01 Morphological properties in L2 acquisition have a prominent role in the current research agenda, particularly with respect to the optionality observed and what this tells us about learners’ representations. Some authors (Smith and Tsimpli 1995, Hawkins and Chan 1997, Hawkins and Franceschina 2004, among others) argue for representational deficits in learners’ systems, particularly with respect to uninterpretable features. Clitics, as manifestations of agreement and bearers of uninterpretable features, offer a promising testing ground. This paper contributes to the debate by observing clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in L2 Spanish and Greek when English is the L1. Differences in morphological richness and in the properties of their pronominal systems allow us to test how learners interpret clitics in the L2. 10 01 JB code lald.47.11tsi 187 227 41 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Aspect and the Interpretation of Motion Verbs in L2 Greek</TitleText> 1 A01 Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2 A01 Despina Papadopoulou Papadopoulou, Despina Despina Papadopoulou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 01 This study examines the role of aspect in L2 acquisition within the framework of the Interpretability Hypothesis (Tsimpli 2003; Hawkins and Hattori 2006). Aspect in Greek is a grammaticalized, interpretable feature affecting the argument structure and the telic/atelic interpretation of manner-of-motion verbs. As such, aspect is relevant to the syntax-semantics and the syntaxdiscourse interfaces. Native speakers and L2 learners of Greek were tested on the comprehension and production of manner-of-motion verbs. The results show that aspectual distinctions are appropriately used by L2 learners, at both interfaces. However, unlike native speakers, L2 learners rely more on lexical properties of prepositions and verbs than on grammatical aspect to encode (a)telicity. Moreover, L2 grammars of Greek seem to involve a one-to-one correspondence between perfectivity and telicity. 10 01 JB code lald.47.12lis 229 246 18 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Associating meaning to form in advanced L2 speakers: An investigation into the acquisition of the English present simple and present progressive</TitleText> 1 A01 Sarah Ann Liszka Liszka, Sarah Ann Sarah Ann Liszka University of London Institute in Paris 01 This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of the distributional and interpretational properties of the English present simple (e.g., <i>She works at home) </i>and present progressive (e.g., <i>She is working at home</i>). To test whether advanced L2 learners are successful in assigning target-like meanings to these forms, sixteen advanced L1 French-L2 English and thirteen L1 English informants participated in two oral tasks and a written gap-fill task. Results indicate that these L2 speakers use both forms productively, but show optionality in consistently producing the progressive in appropriate environments. The study considers a permanent L2 deficit arising from L1-L2 parametric differences as a potential source of difficulty in acquiring the target-like interpretations associated with the two forms. 10 01 JB code lald.47.14nam 247 248 2 Miscellaneous 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Name index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.15sub 249 250 2 Miscellaneous 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20090114 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027253088 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 99.00 EUR R 01 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 149.00 USD S 692007430 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LALD 47 Hb 15 9789027253088 13 2008045265 BB 01 LALD 02 0925-0123 Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 47 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Representational Deficits in SLA</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins</Subtitle> 01 lald.47 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.47 1 B01 Neal Snape Snape, Neal Neal Snape Gunma Prefectural Women's University 2 B01 Yan-kit Ingrid Leung Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid Yan-kit Ingrid Leung University of Hong Kong 3 B01 Michael Sharwood Smith Sharwood Smith, Michael Michael Sharwood Smith Heriot-Watt University 01 eng 278 xxv 250 LAN009000 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.LA Language acquisition 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-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 success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are representational deficits in the post-critical-period L2 learners’ grammar. The significance of such deficits, if their existence can be confirmed, is that they provide support for the claim, at least for the type of L2 learner under investigation, that there are insurmountable obstacles to ultimate attainment. <br /> 05 Overall, however, this is serious work on a serious subject, and anyone interested in the question of failure to converge on the target grammar would do well to take a look at it. Kevin R. Gregg, Momoyama Gakuin University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 32(3): 508-510 05 This book is an excellent example of how Roger Hawkins’s work has influenced the second language acquisition (SLA) field. The nine chapters that comprise the volume cover different linguistic interfaces (syntax-phonology, syntax-morphology, syntax-semantics and syntax-pragmatics) and an interesting array of first and second language combinations. They are all solidly grounded in empirical work and focus on the much-debated issue of representational deficits in SLA. 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 05 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 05 Failure to learn syntactic properties of an L2 at advanced levels of proficiency presents acquisition theories with a conundrum. The papers in this volume address one account of this failure: <i>representational deficits</i>. Rich in data, presenting many different learning problems, of L1-L2 pairs, and well-articulated theoretical solutions, they make a worthy tribute to Roger Hawkins’s significant contributions to second language research. Susanne Carroll, University of Calgary 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lald.47.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027253088.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027253088.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lald.47.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lald.47.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lald.47.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lald.47.hb.png 10 01 JB code lald.47.01ded vii 1 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Dedication</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.02pre ix xii 4 Miscellaneous 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.01ack xiii 1 Miscellaneous 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acknowledgements</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.03sna xv xxv 11 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal Snape Snape, Neal Neal Snape Gunma Prefectural Women’s University 2 A01 Yan-kit Ingrid Leung Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid Yan-kit Ingrid Leung University of Hong Kong 3 A01 Michael Sharwood Smith Sharwood Smith, Michael Michael Sharwood Smith Heriot-Watt University 10 01 JB code lald.47.04goa 1 26 26 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage</TitleText> 1 A01 Heather Goad Goad, Heather Heather Goad McGill University 2 A01 Lydia White White, Lydia Lydia White McGill University 01 Problems with the second language (L2) acquisition of articles in Turkish-English interlanguage are examined, specifically omission, substitution of other determiners in place of articles, overuse of stressed articles and differential treatment of articles in DPs with and without adjectives. Trenkic’s (2007) syntactic misanalysis account is argued against, that difficulties with articles for L2 English speakers from L1s like Turkish and Serbian stem from the absence of DP in the L1 grammar. Instead, in accordance with the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis, it is proposed that L1 prosodic representations underlie these problems; L2 learners are argued to have difficulty in producing functional morphology in target-like fashion when the L2 requires a prosodic representation that is unavailable in the L1 grammar. 10 01 JB code lald.47.05sna 27 51 25 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal Snape Snape, Neal Neal Snape Gunma Prefectural Women’s University 01 This paper attempts to explore the difficulties Chinese speakers have with the acquisition of English articles by situating itself within three hypotheses by using two tasks; a written forced choice elicitation task and an oral elicited picture description task. Our findings from the first task are consistent with the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Our findings from the second task are not fully consistent with the Representational Deficit Hypothesis or the strong interpretation of the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis as omission of articles is low. This indicates that L2 learners are perhaps able to access uninterpretable features and target-like prosodic representations even at intermediate levels, which is consistent with the view of full access to syntax and phonological structures via Universal Grammar. 10 01 JB code lald.47.06vai 53 68 16 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach</TitleText> 1 A01 Anne Vainikka Vainikka, Anne Anne Vainikka Johns Hopkins University 2 A01 Martha Young-Scholten Young-Scholten, Martha Martha Young-Scholten Newcastle University 01 Under Organic Grammar (Vainikka and Young-Scholten 2005; 2007), the building of L2 syntactic structure is constrained by UG in interaction with primary linguistic data. On the basis of verb raising, we argue against the partial UG availability pursued in Hawkins and Chan (1997) in their Failed Functional Features Hypothesis, whose refinement by Hawkins and Hattori (2006) states that only those uninterpretable syntactic features present in the learner’s L1 remain accessible for L2 acquisition. After summarizing UG-driven L2 German verb raising, we consider French/English adverb placement data pointing to L1-driven verb raising (White, 1991a, b; Schwartz, 1996). However, absence of Frenchlike raising in questions and negation (White 1992; Eubank 1994) requires an alternative account. Based on Vainikka’s (2007) framework which dispenses with Cinque’s (1999) prolific projections, we provide an alternative analysis. 10 01 JB code lald.47.07yua 69 103 35 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language: Evidence from wh-words used as universal quantifiers in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Chinese</TitleText> 1 A01 Boping Yuan Yuan, Boping Boping Yuan University of Cambridge 01 This paper reports on an empirical study examining L2 acquisition of Chinese wh-words used as universal quantifiers (UQs) by Japanese- and Englishspeaking learners. Results from a sentence acceptability judgment test and a sentence interpretation test indicate that wh-words can be acquired as UQs in English and Japanese speakers’ L2 Chinese grammars. However, the acquisition takes place rather late and there is evidence for representational deficit in beginner, intermediate and post-intermediate Japanese learners’ L2 Chinese grammars, i.e., wh-words in subject position can have target-like behaviours, but those in object position cannot. We argue that the underlying L2 Chinese representations in these learners’ L2 Chinese grammars are still divergent from that of the native Chinese grammar in spite of some apparently native-like behaviours. 10 01 JB code lald.47.08jia 105 126 22 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-speaking learners</TitleText> 1 A01 Jiang Lin Lin, Jiang Jiang Lin Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 01 This study investigates whether Chinese speakers can acquire the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects. Chinese allows both the long-distance (LD) and the local binding of reflexives, whereas English only allows the local binding of reflexives. Similarly, Chinese allows both overt and null objects, whereas English only allows overt objects. Even though the two properties involve different types of antecedent-anaphora and operator-variable binding relations, both of them are likely to cause poverty of stimulus for Chinese learners of English. The results of the experiment suggest that the learners’ interpretation of binding of reflexives is more or less native-like because of the availability of the triggering data but the obligatory status of English objects is not acquirable because of the lack of the relevant triggering data. 10 01 JB code lald.47.09loz 127 166 40 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus</TitleText> 1 A01 Cristóbal Lozano Lozano, Cristóbal Cristóbal Lozano 01 Previous research shows that English-speaking learners of Spanish show (i) early sensitivity to the syntactic mechanisms licensing overt and null pronominal subjects, yet (i) persistent and long-lasting deficits when pronominal distribution is constrained by topic/focus at the syntax-discourse interface. It has been assumed that such vulnerability affects the whole set of phi-features of the pronominal paradigm, but I will use near-native corpus evidence to show that the observed deficits are selective, i.e., they do not affect the whole set of phi-features in the pronominal paradigm but rather a subset: due to their representational nature (which is constrained by Universal Grammar), only third person singular animate pronouns are targets for vulnerability, while the rest of the paradigm remains rather stable. 10 01 JB code lald.47.10par 167 185 19 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in Spanish and Greek L2 grammars</TitleText> 1 A01 Teresa Parodi Parodi, Teresa Teresa Parodi University of Cambridge, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics 01 Morphological properties in L2 acquisition have a prominent role in the current research agenda, particularly with respect to the optionality observed and what this tells us about learners’ representations. Some authors (Smith and Tsimpli 1995, Hawkins and Chan 1997, Hawkins and Franceschina 2004, among others) argue for representational deficits in learners’ systems, particularly with respect to uninterpretable features. Clitics, as manifestations of agreement and bearers of uninterpretable features, offer a promising testing ground. This paper contributes to the debate by observing clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation in L2 Spanish and Greek when English is the L1. Differences in morphological richness and in the properties of their pronominal systems allow us to test how learners interpret clitics in the L2. 10 01 JB code lald.47.11tsi 187 227 41 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Aspect and the Interpretation of Motion Verbs in L2 Greek</TitleText> 1 A01 Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2 A01 Despina Papadopoulou Papadopoulou, Despina Despina Papadopoulou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 01 This study examines the role of aspect in L2 acquisition within the framework of the Interpretability Hypothesis (Tsimpli 2003; Hawkins and Hattori 2006). Aspect in Greek is a grammaticalized, interpretable feature affecting the argument structure and the telic/atelic interpretation of manner-of-motion verbs. As such, aspect is relevant to the syntax-semantics and the syntaxdiscourse interfaces. Native speakers and L2 learners of Greek were tested on the comprehension and production of manner-of-motion verbs. The results show that aspectual distinctions are appropriately used by L2 learners, at both interfaces. However, unlike native speakers, L2 learners rely more on lexical properties of prepositions and verbs than on grammatical aspect to encode (a)telicity. Moreover, L2 grammars of Greek seem to involve a one-to-one correspondence between perfectivity and telicity. 10 01 JB code lald.47.12lis 229 246 18 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Associating meaning to form in advanced L2 speakers: An investigation into the acquisition of the English present simple and present progressive</TitleText> 1 A01 Sarah Ann Liszka Liszka, Sarah Ann Sarah Ann Liszka University of London Institute in Paris 01 This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of the distributional and interpretational properties of the English present simple (e.g., <i>She works at home) </i>and present progressive (e.g., <i>She is working at home</i>). To test whether advanced L2 learners are successful in assigning target-like meanings to these forms, sixteen advanced L1 French-L2 English and thirteen L1 English informants participated in two oral tasks and a written gap-fill task. Results indicate that these L2 speakers use both forms productively, but show optionality in consistently producing the progressive in appropriate environments. The study considers a permanent L2 deficit arising from L1-L2 parametric differences as a potential source of difficulty in acquiring the target-like interpretations associated with the two forms. 10 01 JB code lald.47.14nam 247 248 2 Miscellaneous 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Name index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lald.47.15sub 249 250 2 Miscellaneous 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20090114 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 01 245 mm 02 164 mm 08 645 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 53 20 01 02 JB 1 00 99.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 104.94 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 20 02 02 JB 1 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 20 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 149.00 USD