This is Definitely Specific: Specificity and Definiteness in Article Systems

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The representation of English articles in second language grammars: Determiners or adjectives?* (2008, background): “If one insists on preserving the idea of noteworthiness, then it must be understood in the sense of merely having something worthy to note about the referent in the present context (cf. Ionin, 2006).”
Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners* (2009, methodology): “3 Ionin (2006) further discusses what happens in a language which has three articles, such as colloquial English, with the, a, and referential this.”