Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009)
edited by Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, and Annie Tremblay

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A Note from the Editors
Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, and Annie Tremblay
v (abstract or complete paper)

— Articles —

Spanish, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese L2 Learners' Acquisition of Generic Reference
Neal Snape, María del Pilar García Mayo, and Ayşe Gürel
1-8 (abstract or complete paper)

Article Use in L3 English with German as L2 by Native Speakers of Russian and in L2 English of Russian Speakers
Michael Treichler, Cornelia Hamann, Manuela Schönenberger, Maria Voeykova, and Natalia Lauts
9-16 (abstract or complete paper)

— Clitics —

Topicality and Clitic Doubling in L2 Bulgarian: A Test Case for the Interface Hypothesis
Ivan Ivanov
17-24 (abstract or complete paper)

Unexpected Constructions in SLA: A Diachronic Approach
Susana Perales and Juana M. Liceras
25-34 (abstract or complete paper)

— Interfaces —

Null Prepositions in Wh-Questions and Passives
Tomohiro Hokari and Shigenori Wakabayashi
35-45 (abstract or complete paper)

Verb Second in Advanced L2 English: A Learner Corpus Study
Tom Rankin
46-59 (abstract or complete paper)

Acquisition of Zero Pronouns in Discourse by Korean and English Learners of L2 Japanese
Kazumi Yamada
60-68 (abstract or complete paper)

Reassembly of Features in English Speakers' L2 Chinese Resultative Compound Constructions
Boping Yuan and Yang Zhao
69-76 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Acquisition of the Interpretation of Embedded Null Arguments in Chinese
Lucy Xia Zhao
77-85 (abstract or complete paper)

— Phonology —

The Variable Acquisition of /s/ + Consonant Onset Clusters in Farsi-English Interlanguage
Malek Boudaoud and Walcir Cardoso
86-104 (abstract or complete paper)

Is Acquisition of L2 Phonemes Difficult? Production of English Stress by Japanese Speakers
Mariko Kondo
105-112 (abstract or complete paper)

— Processing —

Probing for Intermediate Traces in the Processing of Long-Distance Wh-Dependencies in English as a Second Language
Laurent Dekydtspotter and A. Katherine Miller
113-124 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Processing of Japanese Scrambling under the Parallel Architecture Framework
Masahiro Hara
125-135 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Learners' Sensitivity to Strong and Weak Subjacency-Violations in Online Processing
Usha Lakshmanan, Kyoungsook Lucy Kim, Robert McCreary, Kyae-Sung Park, Uma Suen, and Soojin Lee
136-143 (abstract or complete paper)

— Semantics/Pragmatics —

The Interpretation of English Sentences Containing Quantification and Negation by L1-Korean L2-English Adult Learners
Eun Seon (Eunice) Chung
144-156 (abstract or complete paper)

The Role of Semantic Features in Scrambling
Roksolana Mykhaylyk
157-167 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Acquisition of Scope: Testing the Full Transfer Full Access Hypothesis
Öner Özçelik
168-179 (abstract or complete paper)

Aspectual Interpretation in Second Languages: A Bidirectional Study of L2 English and L2 Japanese
Tae Yamazaki-Hasegawa
180-191 (abstract or complete paper)

— Syntax —

The Acquisition of Uninterpretable Features: The Case of vP Ellipsis
Kholoud Al-Thubaiti
192-200 (abstract or complete paper)

Lakshmanan and Lindsey's (1998) Genitive of Negation Study Reloaded: Non-Acquisition as Evidence of Knowledge
Alyona Belikova
201-209 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Production of English Past Morphology in Advanced Spanish Natives: Syntactic Deficits or Phonotactic Transfer?
Gonzalo Campos
210-219 (abstract or complete paper)

The Lexicon-Syntax Interface in L2 Italian: Ne-Cliticisation with Intransitive Verbs
Tihana Kraš
220-230 (abstract or complete paper)

Acquisition of Attributive and Predicative Adjective Agreement in L2 Spanish
Karen Lichtman
231-247 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Acquisition of the Russian Telicity Parameter
Larissa Nossalik
248-263 (abstract or complete paper)

The Acquisition of Word Order in Different Learner Types
Cristina Pierantozzi
264-271 (abstract or complete paper)

Uninterpretable Features in the Processing of Past Participle Agreement in L2 French
Claire Renaud
272-279 (abstract or complete paper)

What Is Easy and What Is Hard to Acquire in a Second Language?
Roumyana Slabakova
280-294 (abstract or complete paper)