The Role of Presuppositionality in the Second Language Acquisition of English Articles

This article investigates the role of presuppositionality (defined as the presupposition of existence) in the second language (L2) acquisition of English articles. Building upon the proposal in Wexler 2003 that young English-acquiring children overuse the with presuppositional indefinites, this arti...

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Main Authors: Wexler, Kenneth, Ko, Heejeong, Ionin, Tania
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58808
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6290-1160