Proceedings Of The 13th Generative Approaches To Second Language Acquisition Conference Gasla 2015

This volume contains 19 papers presented at the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2015), which took place from March 4-6, 2015, at Indiana University Bloomington, including the keynote from Rex Sprouse.

This volume contains 27 papers presented at the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009), which was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from March 13-15, 2009. The papers are organized into sections on articles, clitics, interfaces, phonology, processing, semantics/pragmatics, and syntax.

This volume contains 18 papers selected from the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006), which was hosted by the University of Calgary. It was held at Alberta's Banff Centre, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, on April 27-30, 2004. The papers address L2 acquisition in speakers of French, English, Chinese, and other languages; the impact of ultrasound technology on L2 acquisition research; and other issues of bilinguality.

This volume contains 25 papers selected from the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), which was held at the University of Iowa on May 18-20, 2007. Subjects covered include telicity, wh-constructions, specificity, the structure of new grammars acquired by adults, and other topics related to L2 acquisition.

This proceedings contains 39 of the 53 papers and posters that were presented at the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA), including the plenary talk given by Lisa Travis. The theme of the conference, ?Links to Allied Disciplines", brought together scholars working not only in the field of second language acquisition, but also in the areas of linguistic theory, first languageacquisition, language processing and language impairment.

This volume contains 16 papers selected from the 37 presented at the eleventh conference on Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 2011), which took place from March 25-27, 2011 at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. The papers include Heather Goad's keynote speech.

This book presents comprehensive and rigorous research on the acquisition of Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners within the theoretical framework of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis. The results from grammaticality judgment data (N=182) and learner corpus data (overall scale: 15.19 million characters) reveal multiple factors contributing to the variability in L2 acquisition at the interfaces involved with Chinese negative structures, including L1 influence, the quantity (input frequency) and the quality of the target input (input consistency and regularity), as well as L2 proficiency. These factors also underlie the detectability and reassembly of the [±realis] features encoded with bu and mei, the two primary negation markers in Mandarin Chinese, in different licensing contexts. Task modality (written vs. aural) seems to play a role in L2 learners’ access to explicit and implicit knowledge about Chinese negation, but the effect of task modality is constrained by other factors such as structural/feature complexity, L2 proficiency, and L1-L2 similarity. The approach of employing both elicited experimental data and authentic learner corpus data furnishes new evidence for the acquisition Chinese negation by L2 learners. The findings of this study are of significance to the examination of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis in generative-oriented SLA research.