Heather Marsden
List of John Benjamins publications in which Heather Marsden is involved.
Journal
2023 L2 acquisition of definiteness in Japanese floating numeral quantifiers: Can overt L1 morphology help? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:3, pp. 409–437 | Article
This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of a constraint on definiteness in Japanese floating numeral quantifiers (NQs) by native English and Korean speakers. The constraint arises because of the specific structural relation between a floating NQ and its associated noun,… read more
2021 When there’s no mirror image, and other L 3 research design challenges Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 79–83 | Commentary
2018 Chapter 11. Generative second language acquisition and language teaching: Advancing the dialogue Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova, Cho, Jacee, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Chapter
Though language teaching concerns lie outside the core aim of generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) research, consideration of how GenSLA findings might be useful for the language classroom has nonetheless been a consistent sub-theme within Roumyana Slabakova’s work. This paper reports on… read more
2013 Existential quantifiers in second language acquisition: A feature reassembly account* Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:2, pp. 117–149 | Article
Lardiere’s (2005, 2008, 2009) Feature Reassembly Hypothesis proposes that L2 acquisition involves reconfiguring the sets of lexical features that occur in the native language into feature bundles appropriate to the L2. This paper applies the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis to findings from recent… read more




