In this article I discuss the selection and assembly of formal features in second language
acquisition. Assembling the particular lexical items of a second language (L2) requires that …

Within a Principles and Parameters framework, parameters are hypothesized to constitute
highly restrictive options, or points of variation of a theoretically relevant sort between …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

The first book-length treatment of its type, Ultimate Attainment in Second Language
Acquisition is a case study with a solid theoretical grounding that examines the language of …

In recent work by Tsimpli (2003) and Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (to appear) an explicit
claim is made about the nature of end-state grammars in older second language (L2) …

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 …

Recent research has shown that homophonous lexemes show systematic phonetic
differences (eg Gahl 2008, Drager 2011), with important consequences for models of …

Recent research on the acoustic realization of affixes has revealed differences between
phonologically homophonous affixes, eg the different kinds of final [s] and [z] in English …

Many L2 speakers fail to supply functional morphology consistently in production. In this
paper, the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis (PTH) is proposed, where this is attributed to L1 …

In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which
second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional categories or features that are …