This paper addresses the view that bare nominals in languages without articles can be
definites as well as indefinites. In particular, it challenges the status of bare nominals as …

This article investigates how adult Korean-speaking learners of English interpret English
definite descriptions (the book, the books) and demonstrative descriptions (that book, those …

This article investigated Cantonese ESL learners' explicit knowledge of the English article
system. A total of 33 Cantonese ESL learners majoring in English participated in a …

This paper investigates how learners interpret definite plural noun phrases (eg, the tigers)
and bare (article-less) plural noun phrases (eg, tigers) in their second language. Whereas …

Pragmatic phenomena are characterized by extreme variability, which makes it difficult to
draw sound generalizations about the role of social cognition in pragmatic language by and …

This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of the English count/mass
distinction by speakers of Korean and Mandarin Chinese, with a focus on the semantics of …

By replicating Cho (2017), this article investigates how second language (L2) learners with
an article-less first language acquire two types of English definiteness, anaphoric and …

The relationship between the semantic function of noun phrases and the way (s) in which
they are realized morphosyntactically in a clause has been a topic of intensive research in …

This study investigated the processing of English articles by second language (L2) speakers
whose first language (L1) is Korean. Previous studies in L2 English article use had some …

The article discusses the concept of Feature Reassembly (FR) in the context of second
language acquisition (SLA). The authors argue that FR, which focuses on the interaction …