caa a22 4500 386335028 CHVBK 20180307111730.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0142716400008663 doi S0142716400008663 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0142716400008663 Thomas Margaret Harvard University The acquisition of English articles by first- and second-language learners [Elektronische Daten] [Margaret Thomas] Child first-language (L1) learners frequently use the definite article in referential indefinite contexts, that is, with nouns appearing in the discourse for the first time, where adults use the indefinite article. Adult second-language (L2) learners also overgeneralize the definite article. Research reported here shows 30 L2 learners use the in referential indefinite contexts at significantly higher rates than in nonreferential contexts. Thus, both L1 and L2 learners may share an initial hypothesis associating the with referential nouns. This evidence of a strategy common to L1 and L2 learners invites reinterpretation of both L1 and L2 acquisition data. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/3(1989-09), 335-355 0142-7164 10:3<335 1989 10 APS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008663 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008663 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thomas Margaret Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/3(1989-09), 335-355 0142-7164 10:3<335 1989 10 APS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge