Article Semantics in L2 Acquisition: The Role of Specificity

By Tania Ionin, Heejeong Ko, Kenneth Wexler. 2004

479 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. Vadim Philippov
4. Tania Ionin

In Language and Linguistics

1. Vadim Philippov
2. Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
3. D. Trenkic
4. Tania Ionin
5. S. Montrul

Citations in the corpus

• The acquisition of articles in child second language English: fluctuation, transfer or both? (2008, unknown): “While English marks definiteness in its article system, languages such as Samoan (Lyons, 1999; Ionin et al., 2004) mark specificity.”
• The representation of English articles in second language grammars: Determiners or adjectives?* (2008, methodology): “The materials consisted of 24 short dialogues, based on items from the forced-choice elicitation task in Ionin et al. (2004).”
• Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners* (2009, methodology): “In section 1, we discuss previous findings with adult L2-English learners, and reconsider the original proposal of Ionin et al. (2004) in light of new cross-linguistic data.”