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