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Property-by-property acquisition of a second language: What transfers, under what conditions, and how does recovery from transfer proceed? by Ionin, Tania

“…This commentary discusses the recent keynote article in Second Language Research by Westergaard (2021), which extends the Micro-cue Model to second language…”
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Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals by Ionin, Tania, Luchkina, Tatiana, Goldshtein, Maria

“…This article reports on two experiments that examine the computation of contrastive focus in Russian on the part of adult English-dominant heritage speakers…”
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Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin by Chen, Chung-yu, Ionin, Tania

“…This study investigates (1) whether second language learners (L2ers) acquire the Mandarin system of pronouns and reflexives despite differences from their…”
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Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope by Wu, Mien-Jen, Ionin, Tania

“…This article investigates whether explicit instruction can affect second language (L2) competence in the domain of English quantifier scope. An intervention…”
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Knowledge of indefinite articles in L2-English: Online vs. offline performance by Ionin, Tania, Choi, Sea Hee, Liu, Qiufen

“…This study uses both offline and online tasks in order to investigate whether second language learners of English from an article-less first-language…”
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L1 Korean and L1 Mandarin L2 English learners’ acquisition of the count/mass distinction in English by Choi, Sea Hee, Ionin, Tania, Zhu, Yeqiu

“…This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of the English count/mass distinction by speakers of Korean and Mandarin Chinese, with a focus on…”
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Transfer Effects in the Interpretation of Definite Articles by Spanish Heritage Speakers by Montrul, Silvina, Ionin, Tania

“…This study investigates the role of transfer from the stronger language by focusing on the interpretation of definite articles in Spanish and English by…”
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Nuclear accent placement in broad focus intransitives in native and non-native English: an investigation of syntactic and pragmatic factors by Landblom, Stephanie A, Ionin, Tania

“…Simple broad focus intransitives in English have been observed to occur with variable nuclear accent (NA) placement on either the subject or verb. This…”
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Wide scope indefinites in Russian: an experimental investigation by Martí, Luisa, Ionin, Tania

“…This paper contributes to the cross-linguistic study of indefinites by reporting on two experimental studies on the scopal and functional properties of the two…”
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Evaluating the Russian Language Proficiency of Bilingual and Second Language Learners of Russian by Luchkina, Tatiana, Ionin, Tania, Lysenko, Natalia, Stoops, Anastasia, Suvorkina, Nadezhda

“…The starting point of most experimental and clinical examinations of bilingual language development is the choice of the measure of participants’ proficiency,…”
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Intonational effects on English scopally-ambiguous sentences by Wu, Mien-Jen, Ionin, Tania

“…This paper examines the effect of intonation contour on two types of scopally ambiguous constructions in English: configurations with a universal quantifier in…”
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Genericity Distinctions and the Interpretation of Determiners in Second Language Acquisition by Ionin, Tania, Montrul, Silvina, Kim, Ji-Hye, Philippov, Vadim

“…English uses three types of generic NPs: bare plurals ( Lions are dangerous), definite singulars ( The lion is dangerous), and indefinite singulars ( A lion is…”
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Focus on Russian Scope: An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship between Quantifier Scope, Prosody, and Information Structure by Ionin, Tania, Luchkina, Tatiana

“…An experimental investigation of quantifier scope in Russian SVO and OVS sentences, in which the factors of word order, prosody, information structure, and…”
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Second language acquisition by Roumyana Slabakova (review) by Ionin, Tania

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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English by Ionin, Tania, Montrul, Silvina

“…This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the interpretation of plural noun phrases. Languages with articles differ in whether they use bare…”
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Dominant Language Transfer in Spanish Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners in the Interpretation of Definite Articles by MONTRUL, SILVINA, IONIN, TANIA

“…This study investigates dominant language transfer (from English) in adult Spanish second language (L2) learners and Spanish heritage speakers. We focus on…”
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THIS IS DEFINITELY SPECIFIC: SPECIFICITY AND DEFINITENESS IN ARTICLE SYSTEMS by IONIN, TANIA

“…This paper argues for the reality of specificity as noteworthiness, a concept built upon Fodor and Sag's (1982) view of referentiality. Support for this view…”
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The Effect of Input Flooding and Explicit Instruction on L2 Acquisition of English Inverse Scope by Wu, Mien-Jen, Ionin, Tania

“…This article investigates how different types of input and instruction can affect L1-Mandarin L2-English learners’ acquisition of English inverse scope…”
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INTONATIONAL EFFECTS ON ENGLISH SCOPALLYAMBIGUOUS SENTENCES by Wu, MIEN-JEN, Ionin, Tania

“…This paper examines the effect of intonation contour on two types of scopally-ambiguous constructions in English: configurations with a universal quantifier in…”
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Review article: Recent publications on research methods in second language acquisition by Ionin, Tania

“…The central goal of the field of second language acquisition (SLA) is to describe and explain how second language learners acquire the target language. In…”
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