Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007)
edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky, and Elena Gavruseva

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A Note from the Editors
Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky, and Elena Gavruseva
v (abstract or complete paper)

Reciprocal Verbs in the L2 French of Native Speakers of Russian
Alyona Belikova
1-14 (abstract or complete paper)

The Development of sC Onset Clusters in Interlanguage: Markedness vs. Frequency Effects
Walcir Cardoso
15-29 (abstract or complete paper)

What Metathesis Reveals about L1 and L2 Acquisition
Haruka Fukazawa and Viola Miglio
30-36 (abstract or complete paper)

Calculating Telicity in Native and Non-native English
Alison Gabriele
37-46 (abstract or complete paper)

A Test Case for L1 versus UG as the L2 Initial State: The Acquisition of the Scope Properties of Disjunction by Japanese Learners of English
Theres Grüter, Moti Lieberman, and Andrea Gualmini
47-56 (abstract or complete paper)

Article Choice Parameters in L2
Hakima Guella, Viviane Déprez, and Petra Sleeman
57-69 (abstract or complete paper)

Adverbial Quantification and Perfective/Imperfective Interpretive Nuances in L2 Portuguese
Michael Iverson and Jason Rothman
70-80 (abstract or complete paper)

L3 Acquisition of Articles in German by Native Japanese Speakers
Carol Jaensch
81-89 (abstract or complete paper)

Progressing beyond the Neutral Perfective: Acquisition of English Aspect by Native Speakers of Japanese
Keiko Kaku, Juana M. Liceras, and Nina Kazanina
90-102 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Article Semantics and Second Language Processing
Kyoungsook Kim and Usha Lakshmanan
103-117 (abstract or complete paper)

Semantic Universals and Variation in L2 Article Choice
Heejeong Ko, Alex Perovic, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler
118-129 (abstract or complete paper)

The Use of Prosody for Disambiguation in English-French Interlanguage
Audrey Liljestrand Fultz
130-139 (abstract or complete paper)

Acquisition of Object Scrambling by Bilingual Ukrainian Children: The Role of Specificity
Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko
140-154 (abstract or complete paper)

Prosody in L2 Acquisition
Emily Nava
155-164 (abstract or complete paper)

L2 Acquisition of Russian Outer Aspect
Larissa Nossalik
165-180 (abstract or complete paper)

Derivational Morphology in English-French Acquisition
Rebecca A. Petrush
181-187 (abstract or complete paper)

The Acquisition of Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin by English Speakers
Zhengwei Qiao
188-195 (abstract or complete paper)

Verbal Agreement in Second Language Acquisition: The Case of Object Pronouns in French
Claire Renaud
196-205 (abstract or complete paper)

Morphophonological or Syntactic Transfer in the Acquisition of English Articles by L1 Speakers of Syrian Arabic?
Ghisseh Sarko
206-217 (abstract or complete paper)

Medial Wh- Words and Inversion Phenomena in Complex Questions: The Case of Canadian French Speakers Acquiring L2 English
Nikolay Slavkov
218-232 (abstract or complete paper)

What Else Transfers?
David Stringer
233-241 (abstract or complete paper)

What About Grammar? Comprehension and Production at the Initial Stage of L2 Acquisition
Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva
242-250 (abstract or complete paper)

Different? Yes. Fundamentally? No. Definiteness Effects in the L2 English of Mandarin Speakers
Lydia White
251-261 (abstract or complete paper)

L1 Transfer in Processing English Subjacency Sentences from Chinese Focused Cleft WHs
Fuyun Wu
262-271 (abstract or complete paper)

Discrepancy in English Speakers' L2 Acquisition of Chinese Wh-Words as Existential Polarity Words: The L1-Dependent Interface Hypothesis
Boping Yuan
272-284 (abstract or complete paper)