Representational deficits in SLA studies in honor of Roger Hawkins (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Representational Deficits in SLA; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage; Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers' L2 article use; Successful features; Non-permanent representational deficit and apparent target-likeness in second language; Acquisition of the local binding characteristics of English reflexives and the obligatory status of English objects by Chinese-; Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface
The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of "representational deficits" in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been devoted to explaining lack of native-like success in terms of representational deficits. The papers in this volume feature a range of studies, all undertaken within a generative linguistic framework, which investigate various properties of L2 grammar bearing on the question of whether or not there are re