Second language acquisition of English articles: an emergentist perspective

序
前言
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Goals of research
1.2 Research background
1.3 Key research questio
1.4 Organization of the book
Chapter 2 Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of English Articles: An
Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Semantic analysis of English articles
2.2.1 Definiteness and English articles
2.2.2 Specificity and English articles
2.2.3 Semantic complexity of English articles
2.3 Pragmatic analysis of English articles
2.3.1 The context-driven nature of semantic features
2.3.2 P-sets (Hawki, 1978, 1991)
2.3.3 Relatiohip between semantic features and contextual
facto
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 L1 and L2 Acquisition of English Articles: A Critical
Review
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Tasks facilitating the acquisition of English articles
3.3 L1 developmental studies
3.3.1 Maratsos's (1976) egocentricity account
3.3.2 Wexler's Lack of Maximality Presupposition account
3.3.3 The specific/non-specific effect account
3.4 Studies of L2-English article acquisition
3.4.1 Semantic Wheel and the classification of NP types
3.4.2 L2 article acquisition studies under the Bickertonian
framework
3.4.3 Jarvis's (2002) study from a discoue pepective
3.4.4 Fluctuation Hypothesis and Syntactic Misanalysis
Account
3.5 Comments on previous research
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 Interaction and L2-English Article Acquisition: Questio
and Hypotheses
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Interaction under the emergentist framework
4.2.1 Emergentism in SLA
4.2.2 Interaction: importance and ignorance
4.2.3 Outlining the interactio to be studied
4.3 Exploring interaction in detail
4.3.l Interaction of different semantic features
4.3.2 Interaction of different contextual facto
4.3.3 Interaction of semantic features with contextual facto
4.4 Research questio and hypotheses
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Study 1：Elicited Production
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Predictio
5.3 Methodology
5.3.1 Participants
5.3.2 Materials and procedures
5.3.3 Data coding procedures
5.4 Results
5.4.1 The forced elicitation task
5.4.2 The written interview
5.5 Discussion
5.5.1 The role of specificity in L2 article choices
5.5.2 Different effects of contextual facto
5.5.3 Interaction of semantic features with contextual facto
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Study 2: Acceptability Judgment
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Background and predictio
6.2.1 Background
6.2.2 Predictio about uniqueness
6.2.3 Predictio about hearer knowledge
6.2.4 Predictio about specificity
6.3 Methodology
6.3.1 Participants
6.3.2 Task and materials
6.3.3 Procedure
6.4 Results
6.4.1 Computing uniqueness
6.4.2 Uniqueness vs. existence
6.4.3 Hearer knowledge
6.4.4 Specific vs. non-specific
6.5 Discussion
6.5.1 The asymmetry of performance in different contexts
6.5.2 The influence of partitivity
6.5.3 Influence of specificity in article compreheion
6.5.4 Semantic knowledge contributes to context seitivity
6.6 Summary
Chapter 7 General Discussion and Conclusio
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Major findings
7.3 General discussion
7.3.1 Effects of specificity and partitivity on L2 learne'
knowledge of definiteness
7.3.2 Facto influencing L2 learne' context-seitivity
7.3.3 Interaction of semantic features with contextual facto
7.4 Conclusio
7.4.1 The Interaction Account: a summary of the study
7.4.2 Implicatio of the present study
7.4.3 Limitatio and suggestio for further research
7.5 Summary
References
Appendixes
Appendix A Article-choice Test (Veion 1)
Appendix B Article-choice Test (Veion 2)
Appendix C The Awer Sheet of Article-choice Test
Appendix D The Coent Form for Study 2
Appendix E Test Items of Study 2
Appendix F L2 Learne' Mean Rating of Items in Study 2
Appendix G Native Speake' Mean Rating of Items in Study 2