This article reports the results of experiments targeting the production and interpretation of
postverbal subjects, and null and overt pronominal subjects, by near-native speakers of …

In recent research on L2 acquisition, there has been considerable emphasis on interfaces
between the linguistic system and grammar external components, such as syntax/discourse …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

The study of crosslinguistic influence or language transfer1 has generated much intense
interest in the field of Second Language Acquisition L2A) for a few decades (see Andersen …

This study investigates the second language acquisition (L2A) of scalar implicatures (Grice,
1989; Horn, 1972), implicatures based on a range of quantifiers ordered in terms of …

This article investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of two expressions of the
semantic feature [definite] in Russian, a language without articles, by English and Korean …

This study examines interpretation of scalar implicatures (SI) in the L2 Spanish of native
English advanced learners. Spanish is especially interesting since, unlike English, it has two …

Assuming transfer of the L1 grammar, in the present study the question of whether all
parameters can be reset even with access to UG is examined in light of the subset/superset …

In contrast with languages where anaphors can be classified into pronouns and reflexives,
Turkish has a tripartite system that consists of the anaphors o, kendi, and kendisi. The …

Although sociocultural theory (SCT) is a general theory of human mental development, it has
been productively extended to include the investigation of second language (L2) …