Neal Snape

orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-6088

List of John Benjamins publications for which Neal Snape plays a role.

Journals

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB)

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E-ISSN 1879-9272

Pedagogical Linguistics (PL)

Edited by Andreas Trotzke and Tom Rankin

ISSN 2665-9581 | E-ISSN 2665-959X

Titles

Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.

Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.

Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.

Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins

Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 47] 2009. xxv, 250 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Snape, Neal and Hironobu Hosoi. 2018. Acquisition of scalar implicatures: Evidence from adult Japanese L2 learners of English. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, pp. 163–192

Our study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of scalar implicatures some and all. We set out to answer two research questions based on three theoretical accounts, the lexical, pragmatic and syntactic accounts. In an experiment we include English and Japanese native speakers, and… read more | Article

Snape, Neal, John Matthews, Makiko Hirakawa, Yahiro Hirakawa and Hironobu Hosoi. 2014. Aspect in L2 English: A longitudinal study of four Japanese child returnees. EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014), Roberts, Leah, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn (eds.), pp. 79–110

Our study reports on data collected on three separate occasions over a period of 12 months from four Japanese child returnees who had lived in the U.S. between 8 and 12 years before returning to Japan. Their English proficiency was assessed by TOEIC and C-test scores, and they were each asked to… read more | Article

Kupisch, Tanja, Neal Snape and Ilse Stangen. 2013. Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers: The acquisition of articles in L3-English  by German-Turkish bilinguals. Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 99–122

L3 acquisition has been a topic of increasing interest throughout the past decade. Nevertheless, linguistically-oriented work has so far paid little attention to the acquisition of foreign languages by second generation minority (or heritage) speakers, who have acquired two languages in early… read more | Article

Snape, Neal. 2009. Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use. Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins, Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 27–51

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… read more | Article

Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith. 2009. Introduction. Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins, Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. xv–xxv

Article

Hawkins, Roger, Saleh Al-Eid, Ibrahim Almahboob, Panos Athanasopoulos, Rangsiya Chaengchenkit, James Hu, Mohammad Rezai, Carol Jaensch, Yunju Jeon, Amy Jiang, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung, Keiko Matsunaga, Martha Ortega, Ghisseh Sarko, Neal Snape and Kalinka Velasco-Zárate. 2006. Accounting for English article interpretation by L2 speakers. EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović (eds.), pp. 7–25

Ionin, Ko and Wexler (2004a) have shown that L2 speakers of English whose L1’s lack articles (Russian and Korean) appear to fluctuate in their interpretation of the and a, allowing them to encode either definiteness or specificity. They argue that these are two options of an Article Choice… read more | Article