Roumyana Slabakova

orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-460X

List of John Benjamins publications for which Roumyana Slabakova plays a role.

Journal

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB)

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E-ISSN 1879-9272

Book series

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (LALD)

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova and Lydia White

ISSN 0925-0123

Yearbook

Titles

Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost

[Not in series, 133] 2006. vi, 363 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

Telicity in the Second Language

Roumyana Slabakova

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 26] 2001. xii, 235 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Semantics

Articles (18) | Order by:

Slabakova, Roumyana, Lucy Xia Zhao, Lewis Baker, James Turner and Elina Tuniyan 2024 Null and overt pronoun interpretation in L2 Mandarin resultative constructions Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:2, pp. 178–217 | Article

This experimental study examines the acquisition of null and overt pronoun interpretations in Chinese as a second language by native speakers of English. A linguistic phenomenon not present in the native language of the learners is identified: the null element in the embedded subject position of… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2023 A shared linguistic system of multilingual representations L3 Development After the Initial State, Brown-Bousfield, Megan M., Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes (eds.), pp. 29–48 | Chapter

This chapter discusses multilingual linguistic representations and probes the question of whether they form a shared linguistic system. Recent psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies of multilingual individuals suggest that this is indeed the case. Taking Minimalist morphosyntax and… read more

Sokolova, Marina and Roumyana Slabakova 2022 A different type of RC attachment resolution: Comparing bilingual and trilingual processing Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 287–314 | Chapter

This study investigates attachment resolution of ambiguous relative clauses (RC) by second (L2) and third (L3) language speakers of English and Russian. Participants’ sensitivity to the language of testing, social conventions, and a linguistic effect of the matrix verb (perception, non-perception)… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2021 Does Full Transfer Endure in L 3 A? Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 96–102 | Commentary

Dudley, Amber and Roumyana Slabakova 2020 Aspectual contrasts in the English present tense revisited: Exploring the role of input and L1 influence Pedagogical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 66–93 | Article

This study investigates the acquisition of aspectual contrasts in the English present tense by French and Chinese learners of English at upper-intermediate to advanced proficiency levels. An oral production task and an interpretation task show that the expression of the aspectual present tense… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2019 The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 319–346 | Chapter

The Bottleneck Hypothesis identifies parts of the grammar that are easier or more difficult to acquire in a second language. It argues that the functional morphology is the bottleneck in L2 acquisition because it bundles a variety of semantic, syntactic and phonological features that affect the… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2018 Back to our roots Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 776–781 | Commentary

Slabakova, Roumyana and María del Pilar García Mayo 2017 Chapter 3. Testing the current models of third language acquisition L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications, Angelovska, Tanja and Angela Hahn (eds.), pp. 63–84 | Chapter

In this chapter, we argue that another factor should be brought into the general picture of third and additional language acquisition: the comprehensible linguistic input. Predictions of current models have been predominantly based on the cognitive-psychological prominence of the three languages… read more

Miller, David, David Giancaspro, Michael Iverson, Jason Rothman and Roumyana Slabakova 2016 Not just algunos, but indeed unos L2ers can acquire scalar implicatures in L2 Spanish Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras, Alba de la Fuente, Anahí, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz (eds.), pp. 125–145 | Article

This study examines interpretation of scalar implicatures (SI) in the L2 Spanish of native English advanced learners. Spanish is especially interesting since, unlike English, it has two indefinite determiners, unos and algunos, which ostensibly map to English some. However, each does not allow an… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2013 Chapter 1. What is easy and what is hard to acquire  in a second language: A generative perspective Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián (eds.), pp. 5–28 | Chapter

Explaining why some linguistic features and constructions are easy or difficult to acquire in a second language has become a prominent current concern in generative second language acquisition (SLA) research. Based on a comparison of findings on the L2 acquisition of functional morphology, syntax,… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2013 Adult second language acquisition: A selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system* Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:1, pp. 48–72 | Article

This review article selects and elaborates on the important issues of adult second language acquisition research in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The fundamental question of whether adult second language acquisition and child first language acquisition are similar or different is… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2012 L3/Ln acquisition: A view from the outside Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, Cabrelli, Jennifer, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 115–140 | Article

This paper approaches the research questions in current L3 acquisition research from the point of view of the current debates in L2A. We consider published L3 acquisition data to see whether four current hypotheses: the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis, the Interface Hypothesis, the Bottleneck… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2011 Which features are at the syntax–pragmatics interface? Epistemological issue with keynote article “Pinning down of “interface” in bilingualism” by Antonella Sorace, pp. 89–93 | Commentary

Slabakova, Roumyana, Jason Rothman and Paula Kempchinsky 2011 Gradient competence at the Syntax-Discourse Interface EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011), Roberts, Leah, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni (eds.), pp. 218–243 | Article

In this article, we present additional support of Duffield’s (2003, 2005) distinction between Underlying Competence and Surface Competence. Duffield argues that a more fine-grained distinction between levels of competence and performance is warranted and necessary. While underlying competence is… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2009 How is inflectional morphology learned? EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 9 (2009), Roberts, Leah, Georges Daniel Véronique, Anna Nilsson and Marion Tellier (eds.), pp. 56–75 | Article

This article considers recent explanations of variability in the second language (L2) comprehension of inflectional morphology. The predictions of five accounts are spelled out: the emergentist account, the Feature Assembly Hypothesis, the Contextual Complexity Hypothesis, the Morphological… read more

Slabakova, Roumyana 2006 A semantic parameter with a syntactic trigger in the L2 acquisition of Italian Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White, Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost (eds.), pp. 69–87 | Article

Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost 2006 Inquiries in linguistic development: Studies in honor of Lydia White Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White, Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article