Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. L2 acquisition of syntax
6. Intervention effects in L1 and L2 English raising 11
7. Explaining the difficulty with L2 acquisition of scope interpretation by speakers of a scope-rigid language 41
8. Definiteness and argument position in the interpretation of bare nouns 67
9. L1-Mandarin L2-English learners’ acquisition of English double-quantifier scope 93
10. L2 acquisition at interfaces
11. Feature dependency and the poverty of the stimulus in the acquisition of L2 German plural allomorphy 117
12. Development of L2 prosody 137
13. Transfer of prosodic representation 157
14. Impact of previously learned languages
15. The role of L1 Norwegian and L2 English in the acquisition of verb placement in L3 German 191
16. Feature reconfiguration at the syntax-discourse interface 213
17. Exploring extra-linguistic factors and their impact on L2 acquisition
18. Interference-based and capacity-based approaches to working memory in second language sentence processing 243
19. Heritage language speakers inform the critical period hypothesis for first and second language acquisition 265
20. A different type of RC attachment resolution 287
21. Subject Index 315