Ultimate attainment at the interfaces in second language acquisition: Grammar and processing

HC Hopp - 2007 - research.rug.nl
Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W.(1992). Configurationality in the Light of Language
Comprehension: The Order of Arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, Konstanz …

Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: Evidence from near-native Italian

A Belletti, E Bennati, A Sorace - Natural language & linguistic theory, 2007 - Springer
This article reports the results of experiments targeting the production and interpretation of
postverbal subjects, and null and overt pronominal subjects, by near-native speakers of …

Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization: Testing the linguistic intuitions of older bilingual children

A Sorace, L Serratrice, F Filiaci, M Baldo - Lingua, 2009 - Elsevier
This study investigates the acceptability of Italian and English pronominal subject forms in−
topic shift [− TS] and+ topic shift [+ TS] contexts in English-Italian and Spanish-Italian …

Second language acquisition at the interfaces

L White - Lingua, 2011 - Elsevier
In recent research on L2 acquisition, there has been considerable emphasis on interfaces
between the linguistic system and grammar external components, such as syntax/discourse …

Multiple interfaces and incomplete acquisition

S Montrul - Lingua, 2011 - Elsevier
In recent years, explanations and predictions of developmental delays or inability to reach
native-like attainment in specific areas of grammatical knowledge have been linked to the …

The syntax–discourse interface in near-native L2 acquisition: Off-line and on-line performance

H Hopp - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2009 - cambridge.org
This study investigates ultimate attainment at the syntax–discourse interface in adult second-
language (L2) acquisition. In total, 91 L1 (first-language) English, L1 Dutch and L1 Russian …

Scalar implicatures in second language acquisition

R Slabakova - Lingua, 2010 - Elsevier
This study investigates the second language acquisition (L2A) of scalar implicatures (Grice,
1989; Horn, 1972), implicatures based on a range of quantifiers ordered in terms of …

The development of the syntax-discourse interface: Greek learners of Spanish

C Lozano - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE …, 2006 - books.google.com
Recent acquisitional studies reveal that formal properties at the lexicon-syntax interface are
in place before discursive properties at the syntax-discourse interface. It has been argued …

Word order in second language Spanish

C Lozano - The handbook of Spanish second language …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers in the 1990s were initially
concerned about whether learners could reset the parameters that constrain word order (eg …

A more careful look at the syntax–discourse interface

R Slabakova, I Ivanov - Lingua, 2011 - Elsevier
In this article, we compare results from two recent comprehensive studies on syntax–
discourse interface properties. Both Valenzuela (2005, 2006) and Ivanov (2009) investigate …