Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W.(1992). Configurationality in the Light of Language
Comprehension: The Order of Arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, Konstanz …

This paper argues for the reality of specificity as noteworthiness, a concept built upon Fodor
and Sag's (1982) view of referentiality. Support for this view of specificity comes from the …

This paper examines article use in the L2-English of adult and child speakers of Russian, an
article-less language. In earlier work on articles in adult L2-English, Ionin, Ko and Wexler …

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 …

The acquisition of articles in English is notoriously difficult for second language (L2) learners
of languages without articles. Early studies by Huebner (1985), Parrish (1987) and Thomas …

Studies of the acquisition of L2 English articles generally investigate the pattern of article
use by collapsing across speakers of a particular L1 and generalizing the results. This has …

It has long been widely known that L2-learners make errors in article choice. In particular, L2-
English learners sometimes misuse the definite article the with an indefinite DP, and …

In this paper, we investigate how L2-learners whose L1s lack articles acquire the semantics
of articles, with special focus on article use by L1-Korean learners of L2-English. Based on …

The appropriate use of (in-) definites can be notoriously difficult for language learners to
acquire, suggesting that this linguistic domain is particularly prone to instability in language …