Tania Ionin

orcid.org/0000-0002-4360-8644

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tania Ionin is involved.

Journal

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272

Titles

New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference

Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul

This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] 2026. vi, 385 pp. + index

Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli

This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] 2019. vi, 358 pp.

Articles (16) | Order by:

Ionin, Tania 2026 Defining and testing multiple grammars: Defining and testing multiple grammars Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:2, pp. 129–132 | Commentary

Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul 2026 New frontiers and connections in second language acquisition: Introduction New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Ionin, Tania and Chung-Yu Chen 2024 Chapter 12. There isn’t a problem with indefinites in existential constructions in L2-English Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 290–313 | Chapter

This is an exploratory study of how both native English speakers and L1-Mandarin L2-English learners judge different types of indefinites in both existential there-constructions and copular constructions with an indefinite subject. Unlike English, Mandarin lacks an a/one distinction, has two… read more

Ionin, Tania, Amy Atiles, Sea Hee Choi, Chae Eun Lee and Mien-Jen Wu 2024 Chapter 5. Revisiting plurality in SLA: Evidence from comprehension and production Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 111–133 | Chapter

This paper reports on the production and comprehension of English singular and plural NPs by L2-English learners whose L1, Mandarin Chinese, does not have obligatory plural marking. This study has the following objectives: (1) To systematically investigate both production and comprehension of… read more

Kim, Myeong Hyeon and Tania Ionin 2024 Potential L1 transfer effects in explicit and implicit knowledge of articles in L2 English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:1, pp. 51–77 | Article

This study investigates how L1-Korean L2-English learners perform with regard to articles in both explicit and implicit tasks. It also examines the role of L1-transfer from Korean demonstratives to English definites in L2 article production. 21 native English speakers and 27 adult intermediate… read more

Ionin, Tania, Maria Goldshtein, Tatiana Luchkina and Sofya Styrina 2023 Who did what to whom, and what did we already know? Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:3, pp. 343–371 | Article

This paper reports on an experimental investigation of what second language (L2) learners and heritage speakers of Russian know about the relationship between word order and information structure in Russian. The participants completed a bimodal acceptability judgment task, rating the… read more

Ionin, Tania, Sea Hee Choi and Qiufen Liu 2022 What transfers (or doesn’t) in the second language acquisition of English articles by learners from article-less native languages? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:2, pp. 133–162 | Article

This paper examines whether adult learners of English whose native languages (Korean and Mandarin Chinese) lack articles are influenced by transfer from demonstratives and numerals in their acquisition of English articles. To this end, the results of two studies are reported. The first study… read more

Wu, Mien-Jen and Tania Ionin 2022 L1-Mandarin L2-English learners’ acquisition of English double-quantifier scope Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Chapter

English double-quantifier configurations such as A dog scared every man are ambiguous between a surface-scope reading (there exists one specific dog which scared every man) and an inverse-scope reading (each man was scared by a possibly different dog), while the Mandarin equivalent only has the… read more

Ionin, Tania and Hélade Scutti Santos 2021 Sources of knowledge in L 3 acquisition Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 65–69 | Commentary

This commentary on Schwartz and Sprouse (2021) focuses on three aspects of their proposal for L3-acquisition: the need to test the role of UG in L3-acquisition; the question of what exactly transfers in the case of transfer from the L2 Interlanguage to the L3; and the distinction between transfer… read more

Choi, Sea Hee, Yeqiu Zhu and Tania Ionin 2019 Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1s Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Chapter

This study investigates whether L2-learners from generalized classifier (GC) languages (Korean and Chinese) can acquire the count/mass distinction of English, in the domain of singular NP interpretation. We hypothesize that L1-Korean/Chinese L2-English learners transfer the properties of NP… read more

Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli 2019 Three streams of generative language acquisition research: Introduction Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter

Ionin, Tania, Elaine Grolla, Hélade Scutti Santos and Silvina Montrul 2015 Interpretation of NPs in generic and existential contexts in L3 Brazilian Portuguese Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:2, pp. 215–251 | Article

This paper examines the interpretation of NPs in generic and existential contexts in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) as a third language (L3) by learners who speak English and a Romance language (Spanish, French or Italian). The paper examines whether transfer / cross-linguistic… read more

Ionin, Tania 2014 Epistemic and scopal properties of some indefinites Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 45–72 | Article

This paper experimentally examines the behavior of English some indefinites, addressing the following research questions. (i) How do singular some indefinites behave with respect to scopal (non-)specificity? (ii) How do singular some indefinites pattern with respect to epistemic… read more

Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul 2009 Article use and generic reference: Parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications, García Mayo, María del Pilar and Roger Hawkins (eds.), pp. 147–173 | Article

Ionin, Tania 2008 Progressive aspect in child L2 English Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 17–53 | Article

This paper investigates the use of -ing forms and bare verb forms in progressive contexts in cross-sectional data of L1-Russian L2-English children. It is proposed that child L2-learners are guided by the Uniqueness Principle (cf. Wexler & Culicover 1980; Pinker 1989; Clark 1987; among others),… read more

Ionin, Tania 2006 A Comparison of article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 253–273 | Article