Second Language Acquisition of Articles
：Empirical findings and theoretical implications
( Language Acquisition and Language Disorders )
Publication subTitle ：Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Publication series ： Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
Author： María del Pilar García Mayo Roger Hawkins
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9789027289117
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027253101
Subject： H09 Chinese teaching
Language： ENG
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Description
The acquisition of nativelike morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge of definite and indefinite articles in a second language is one of the thorniest and most persistent learning problems language learners face. This valuable collection offers findings from several new experimental studies of article acquisition, covering a range of methods and L1-L2 (and even L3) language combinations. The empirical results are brought to bear on important theoretical questions in SLA such as the role of transfer, the role of syntactic, semantic, and prosodic constraints of universal grammar, and the interaction between such constraints and other components of linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. Readers will certainly come away with a deeper appreciation of what it takes to acquire (and to study) such knowledge.