Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In Honor of Roumyana Slabakova

Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	References
Part I. Second Language Acquisition
1. Testing the morphological congruency effect in offline comprehension
	Theoretical background
		Specificity in the scope of negation
	Crosslinguistic analysis of grammaticalization of specificity
		Grammaticalization of specificity in Russian: Genitive of negation
		Grammaticalization of specificity in Korean: Two forms of negation
	The study
		Research questions
		Methodology
			Participants
			Instruments and procedures
	Results
		Data analysis
		Native controls
		L1-English L2-Russian learners
		L1-Korean L2-Russian learners
	Discussion and conclusions
		Native speaker data: Discrepancy between theory and empirical data
		L2 Learner data
			RQ 1. Do L1-English speakers, whose L1 is morphologically incongruent with L2 Russian with respect to scopal specificity, differentiate between accusative object NPs and genitive object NPs in L2 Russian in their offline comprehension?
			RQ 2. Do L1-Korean speakers, whose L1 is morphologically congruent with L2 Russian with respect to scopal specificity differentiate between accusative object NPs and genitive object NPs in L2 Russian in their offline comprehension?
			RQ 3. What is the role of proficiency in overcoming the morphological congruency effect in offline performance?
	Conclusions
	References
2. Mapping at external interfaces
	Structure under study
		CLLD in Romance
		CLLD and specificity
		CLLD in embedded clauses
	Learning tasks
		Research question
	Methods
		Proficiency test
		Background questionnaire
		Clitic-knowledge test
		Audio-visual rating task
	Results
		Proficiency test and background questionnaire
		Clitic task
		Audio-visual rating task
		The contribution of study abroad
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
3. Another look at L2 acquisition of French clitics and strong pronouns
	French and English object pronouns
	Previous L2 studies
	Experiment 1
		Method
		Materials
		Participants
		Results
		Grammatical sentences
		Ungrammatical sentences
		Discussion of Experiment 1
	Experiment 2
		Materials
		Participants
		Results
		Discussion of Experiment 2
	General discussion and conclusion
	References
4. Animacy-based processing loads in anaphora resolution in (non-native) French
	Grammatical architecture and anaphora in French
	The study
		The activation of animacy: PIRH claims
		Capturing activation patterns: Methods
		Predictions
		Procedures and participants
	Results
		Experiment 1
		Experiment 2
	Summary and discussion
	Conclusion
	References
Part II. The Bottleneck Hypothesis
5. The Bottleneck Hypothesis as applied to the Spanish DP
	DP syntax in Romance and Germanic
		The Romance Determiner Phrase: Word order, semantics, and phi-features
		The Germanic Determiner Phrase
		The learning task
	Previous research: Rothman, Iverson, Judy & Guijarro-Fuentes (2009)
		Research questions and predictions
		Experimental and control participants
		Experimental tasks
			Grammaticality Judgment/Correction Task
			Semantic Interpretation Task
			Context-based Collocation Task
	The data: A closer look
		Results of Grammaticality Judgment Correction Task (GJCT)
		Results of Semantic Interpretation Task
		Results of Context-based Collocation Task (CBCT)
	The data: A cross-task comparison
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
6. The Bottleneck Hypothesis extends to heritage language acquisition
	Introduction
	The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition
	Heritage language acquisition
	Semantics
	Syntax
	Morphology
	How the bottleneck may arise in heritage languages
	Conclusion
	References
Part III. The Scalpel Model and L3 acquisition
7. Testing the predictions of the Scalpel Model in L3/Ln acquisition
	The Scalpel Model
	Null and overt subjects
		Null subjects (NS)
		Overt subjects (OS)
	Hypotheses
	The study
		Participants
		Pre-test
		Methodology
		Data analyses
	Results
		Written production task
		Pronoun interpretation task
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
	Appendix
8. Proficiency and transfer effects in the acquisition of gender agreement by L2 and L3 English learners
	 
		Transfer effects in L3 learners’ developing interlanguage
		Gender and possession in Basque, Spanish and English
		Previous research on gender agreement in L2 English
	The present study
		Participants
		Experimental materials and tasks
		Procedure
		Data coding
	Results
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
9. Language dominance and transfer selection in L3 acquisition
	Models of L3/Ln transfer
		A privileged role of the L1
		L2 Status Factor
		The Cumulative Enhancement Model
		The Typological Primacy Model
		The Linguistic Proximity Model
		The Scalpel Model
	Linguistic background
		English negative quantifiers
		Catalan and Spanish negative concord items
		Summary of the properties
	The present study
		Participants
		Materials
		Procedure
		Results
	Discussion and conclusions
	Acknowledgement
	References
	Appendix A
	Appendix B
Part IV. Applied SLA
10. What is easy and what is hard
	Early approaches
	What we don’t need to teach
	Learnability considerations
		Effects of negative evidence in the classroom
		Inappropriate or misleading classroom input
	Linked properties
		Acquisition order
		Parametric clusters
	The Bottleneck Hypothesis
	Conclusion
	References
11. Generative second language acquisition and language teaching
	Applied GenSLA research
		Applied GenSLA intervention studies
		Applied GenSLA investigations of teaching applications for generative linguistic research
	Teacher–researcher engagement activities
		Network events
		Focus groups
	Concluding discussion
	Acknowledgement
	References
Subject Index