This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the interpretation of plural noun
phrases. Languages with articles differ in whether they use bare plurals (English) or definite …

Although international students experience lower attainment at university than home
students (Morrison et al., 2005), reasons are poorly understood. Some question the role of …

This article aims at revitalizing the debate concerning the measurement of language
proficiency (LP) in the study of bilingualism (Grosjean, 1998). A review is presented of the …

This volume addresses the growing interest amongst second language acquisition
researchers in linguistic relativity. The chapter authors conceptually explore and empirically …

We investigated second language (L2) comprehension of grammatical structures that are
unique to the L2, and which are known to cause persistent difficulties in production. A visual …

This paper examines article use in the L2-English of adult and child speakers of Russian, an
article-less language. In earlier work on articles in adult L2-English, Ionin, Ko and Wexler …

This article investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of two expressions of the
semantic feature [definite] in Russian, a language without articles, by English and Korean …

We present a learner corpus-based study of English article use (“a”/“the”/Ø) by L2 learners
with four typologically distinct first languages (L1s): German and Brazilian Portuguese (both …

Aims and research questions: This study aims to investigate second language (L2)
learnability in article acquisition from a feature-based contrastive approach by examining L1 …

This article investigates how adult Korean-speaking learners of English interpret English
definite descriptions (the book, the books) and demonstrative descriptions (that book, those …