Tania Ionin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tania Ionin plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1879-9264 | E-ISSN 1879-9272
Title
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
Edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] 2019. vi, 358 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 12. There isn’t a problem with indefinites in existential constructions in L2-English Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 290–313 | Chapter
This is an exploratory study of how both native English speakers and L1-Mandarin L2-English learners judge different types of indefinites in both existential there-constructions and copular constructions with an indefinite subject. Unlike English, Mandarin lacks an a/one distinction, has two… read more
2024 Chapter 5. Revisiting plurality in SLA: Evidence from comprehension and production Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 111–133 | Chapter
This paper reports on the production and comprehension of English singular and plural NPs by L2-English learners whose L1, Mandarin Chinese, does not have obligatory plural marking. This study has the following objectives: (1) To systematically investigate both production and comprehension of… read more
2024 Potential L1 transfer effects in explicit and implicit knowledge of articles in L2 English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:1, pp. 51–77 | Article
This study investigates how L1-Korean L2-English learners perform with regard to articles in both explicit and implicit tasks. It also examines the role of L1-transfer from Korean demonstratives to English definites in L2 article production. 21 native English speakers and 27 adult intermediate… read more
2023 Who did what to whom, and what did we already know? Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:3, pp. 343–371 | Article
This paper reports on an experimental investigation of what second language (L2) learners and heritage speakers of Russian know about the relationship between word order and information structure in Russian. The participants completed a bimodal acceptability judgment task, rating the… read more
2022 What transfers (or doesn’t) in the second language acquisition of English articles by learners from article-less native languages? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:2, pp. 133–162 | Article
This paper examines whether adult learners of English whose native languages (Korean and Mandarin Chinese) lack articles are influenced by transfer from demonstratives and numerals in their acquisition of English articles. To this end, the results of two studies are reported. The first study… read more
2022 L1-Mandarin L2-English learners’ acquisition of English double-quantifier scope Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Chapter
English double-quantifier configurations such as A dog scared every man are ambiguous between a surface-scope reading (there exists one specific dog which scared every man) and an inverse-scope reading (each man was scared by a possibly different dog), while the Mandarin equivalent only has the… read more
2021 Sources of knowledge in L 3 acquisition Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 65–69 | Commentary
This commentary on Schwartz and Sprouse (2021) focuses on three aspects of their proposal for L3-acquisition: the need to test the role of UG in L3-acquisition; the question of what exactly transfers in the case of transfer from the L2 Interlanguage to the L3; and the distinction between transfer… read more
2019 Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1s 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. 253–270 | Chapter
This study investigates whether L2-learners from generalized classifier (GC) languages (Korean and Chinese) can acquire the count/mass distinction of English, in the domain of singular NP interpretation. We hypothesize that L1-Korean/Chinese L2-English learners transfer the properties of NP… read more
2019 Three streams of generative language acquisition research: Introduction 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. 1–4 | Chapter
2015 Interpretation of NPs in generic and existential contexts in L3 Brazilian Portuguese Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:2, pp. 215–251 | Article
This paper examines the interpretation of NPs in generic and existential contexts in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) as a third language (L3) by learners who speak English and a Romance language (Spanish, French or Italian). The paper examines whether transfer / cross-linguistic… read more
2014 Epistemic and scopal properties of some indefinites Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 45–72 | Article
This paper experimentally examines the behavior of English
some
indefinites, addressing the following research questions. (i) How do singular
some
indefinites behave with respect to scopal (non-)specificity? (ii) How do singular
some
indefinites pattern with respect to epistemic… read more
2009 Article use and generic reference: Parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications, García Mayo, María del Pilar and Roger Hawkins (eds.), pp. 147–173 | Article
2008 Progressive aspect in child L2 English Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 17–53 | Article
This paper investigates the use of -ing forms and bare verb forms in progressive contexts in cross-sectional data of L1-Russian L2-English children. It is proposed that child L2-learners are guided by the Uniqueness Principle (cf. Wexler & Culicover 1980; Pinker 1989; Clark 1987; among others),… read more
2006 A Comparison of article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 253–273 | Article