Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism

Features, interfaces, and beyond

Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference

Editors

Tania Leal | University of Arizona

Elena Shimanskaya | University of Nevada, Reno

Casilde A. Isabelli | University of Nevada, Reno

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This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic theory and psycholinguistic methodologies have impacted second language acquisition research in the last decade, from the linguistic properties under investigation and L1-L2/Ln language pairings down to the specific research questions in each study. The minimalist view of language architecture is at the center of studies investigating L2 acquisition of raising, scope, definiteness, phonological representations, and interlanguage transfer. The volume also showcases the latest research on interface phenomena, language processing, and working memory. Studies analyze data collected with a variety of L2 populations from adult foreign language learners to adolescent L3 learners and heritage speakers.

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 67] 2022. vii, 318 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.67

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Elena Shimanskaya | pp. 1–8

L2 acquisition of syntax

Intervention effects in L1 and L2 English raising: Evidence from acceptability judgments and response times

Pamela Franciotti and Gita Martohardjono | pp. 11–40

Explaining the difficulty with L2 acquisition of scope interpretation by speakers of a scope-rigid language

Takayuki Kimura | pp. 41–66

Definiteness and argument position in the interpretation of bare nouns: From L1 Mandarin to L2 English

Michael C. Stern, Veneeta Dayal, Gita Martohardjono, Ming Chen and Christen N. Madsen II | pp. 67–92

L1-Mandarin L2-English learners’ acquisition of English double-quantifier scope

Mien-Jen Wu and Tania Ionin | pp. 93–114

L2 acquisition at interfaces

Feature dependency and the poverty of the stimulus in the acquisition of L2 German plural allomorphy

John Archibald | pp. 117–136

Development of L2 prosody: The case of information focus

Atsushi Fujimori, Noriko Yamane, Noriko Yoshimura, Mineharu Nakayama, Brian Teaman and Kiyoko Yoneyama | pp. 137–156

Transfer of prosodic representation: L1 Bengali production of L2 English regular simple past tense

Jacqueline Ingham | pp. 157–188

Impact of previously learned languages

The role of L1 Norwegian and L2 English in the acquisition of verb placement in L3 German

Anne Dahl, Kjersti Faldet Listhaug and Guro Busterud | pp. 191–212

Feature reconfiguration at the syntax-discourse interface: L2 acquisition of Italian CLLD

Liz Smeets | pp. 213–240

Exploring extra-linguistic factors and their impact on L2 acquisition

Interference-based and capacity-based approaches to working memory in second language sentence processing

Ian Cunnings | pp. 243–264

Heritage language speakers inform the critical period hypothesis for first and second language acquisition

Silvina Montrul | pp. 265–286

A different type of RC attachment resolution: Comparing bilingual and trilingual processing

Marina Sokolova and Roumyana Slabakova | pp. 287–314

Subject Index | pp. 315–318

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