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Title Meaning and structure in second language acquisition : in honor of Roumyana Slabakova / edited by Jacee Cho, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages)
Series Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; volume 55
Studies in bilingualism ; v. 55.
Contents Intro; Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; Part I. Second Language Acquisition; 1. Testing the morphological congruency effect in offline comprehension; Theoretical background; Specificity in the scope of negation; Crosslinguistic analysis of grammaticalization of specificity; Grammaticalization of specificity in Russian: Genitive of negation; Grammaticalization of specificity in Korean: Two forms of negation; The study; Research questions; Methodology; Participants
Instruments and proceduresResults; Data analysis; Native controls; L1-English L2-Russian learners; L1-Korean L2-Russian learners; Discussion and conclusions; Native speaker data: Discrepancy between theory and empirical data; L2 Learner data; RQ 1. Do L1-English speakers, whose L1 is morphologically incongruent with L2 Russian with respect to scopal specificity, differentiate between accusative object NPs and genitive object NPs in L2 Russian in their offline comprehension?
RQ 2. Do L1-Korean speakers, whose L1 is morphologically congruent with L2 Russian with respect to scopal specificity differentiate between accusative object NPs and genitive object NPs in L2 Russian in their offline comprehension?RQ 3. What is the role of proficiency in overcoming the morphological congruency effect in offline performance?; Conclusions; References; 2. Mapping at external interfaces; Structure under study; CLLD in Romance; CLLD and specificity; CLLD in embedded clauses; Learning tasks; Research question; Methods; Proficiency test; Background questionnaire
Clitic-knowledge testAudio-visual rating task; Results; Proficiency test and background questionnaire; Clitic task; Audio-visual rating task; The contribution of study abroad; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 3. Another look at L2 acquisition of French clitics and strong pronouns; French and English object pronouns; Previous L2 studies; Experiment 1; Method; Materials; Participants; Results; Grammatical sentences; Ungrammatical sentences; Discussion of Experiment 1; Experiment 2; Materials; Participants; Results; Discussion of Experiment 2; General discussion and conclusion; References
4. Animacy-based processing loads in anaphora resolution in (non-native) FrenchGrammatical architecture and anaphora in French; The study; The activation of animacy: PIRH claims; Capturing activation patterns: Methods; Predictions; Procedures and participants; Results; Experiment 1; Experiment 2; Summary and discussion; Conclusion; References; Part II. The Bottleneck Hypothesis; 5. The Bottleneck Hypothesis as applied to the Spanish DP; DP syntax in Romance and Germanic; The Romance Determiner Phrase: Word order, semantics, and phi-features; The Germanic Determiner Phrase; The learning task
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2018)
Subject Second language acquisition.
Linguistic models.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Linguistic models
Second language acquisition
Form Electronic book
Author Cho, Jacee, editor
Iverson, Michael, editor
Judy, Tiffany, editor
Leal, Tania, editor
Shimanskaya, Elena
Slabakova, Roumyana, honouree
LC no. 2018024306
ISBN 9789027263643
9027263647