Grammar and Pragmatics in the Acquisition of Article Systems

By Jeannette Schaeffer, Lisa Matthewson. 2005

176 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. D. Trenkic
2. Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
3. Tania Ionin
4. Vadim Philippov
5. Heejeong Ko
6. Kenneth Wexler

In Language and Linguistics

1. D. Trenkic
2. Vadim Philippov
3. Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
4. Tania Ionin
5. Heejeong Ko
6. Kenneth Wexler
7. S. Montrul

Citations in the corpus

• Article Semantics in L2 Acquisition: The Role of Specificity (2004, methodology): “proposals (e.g., Karmiloff-Smith (1979), Maratsos (1976), Matthewson and Schaeffer (2000) ) have attributed errors in children’s article use to psychological/ pragmatic rather than linguistic factors, such as children’s inability to separate their own assumptions from those of their hearers.”
• Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners* (2009, background): “Schaeffer and Matthewson (2005) proposed, in a similar vein, that children have difficulty separating speaker and hearer assumptions.”
• The representation of English articles in second language grammars: Determiners or adjectives?* (2008, background): “Note that the parameter of the same name is also proposed by Schaeffer and Matthewson (2005), but in their account specificity is viewed as a difference between wide scope and narrow scope readings.”