L2 Learners' Interpretation of Reflexive Anaphora in VP-Ellipsis
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The publication in 1986 of Relevance: Communication and Cognition by Dan Sperber and Dreidre Wilson set in motion a wide-ranging program of research into human communication (for a recent overview, see Yus Ramos, 1998). But actual relevance-theoretic research in second language acquisition (SLA) has barely begun (Foster-Cohen, 2000). Although fairly well studied in generative grammar (e.g., Fiengo and May 1994; Johnson 2001), reflexive anaphora in VP-ellipsis ((1) below) has not been studied in second language acquisition research.
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