This article investigates the role of presuppositionality (defined as the presupposition of
existence) in the second language (L2) acquisition of English articles. Building upon the …

This thesis develops the hypothesis that key aspects of learning and development can be
understood as rational statistical inferences over a compositionally structured representation …

In this article we focus on the category of aspect and examine modern English grammars to
see whether they give sufficient guidelines to the learner on how aspectual meanings are …

ESL learners often show great variation in article use. This study proposes that article use
can be improved if the semantic feature (non) boundedness is introduced into ELT. This …

This research analyzed adequacy of referential expressions in the narratives of bilingual
and monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical …

There has been much recent work investigating second language (L2) acquisition of English
articles by speakers of article-less L1s (Huebner 1983, Master 1987, Parrish 1987, Thomas …

This thesis investigates learnability problems and the role of L1 in L2 syntax-semantics
mappings, through a comparison of English-and Korean-speaking Japanese learners' …

Many studies have investigated third language acquisition (L3A) as an independent area of
research. The core common interest of these studies has been to search for the source of …

This study investigates the sources of article semantics in the acquisition of L3 English by L1
Arabic-L2 French adult learners in a foreign language context. Three sources are …

From antiquity to our century we may easily find evidence for an overwhelming bi-and
plurilingualism.“Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life: eg, high …