Typological Analysis of Articles in World Languages
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A number of second and third language acquisition studies have been conducted on the acquisition of articles in order to examine the learnabilities of the feature from various L1 backgrounds, such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Turkish among many others. Numerous studies have revealed ongoing difficulties of acquiring (in)definite articles by L2 and L3 language learners even at the most advanced stages of acquisition. Considering the issue of learnabilities of articles, it would be interesting and meaningful to investigate how (in)definiteness is realized in natural languages and figure out whether using articles to denote (in)definiteness is a predominant phenomenon or not. Therefore, the current paper examined the typologlogical database—World Atlas of Linguistic Structures and presented descriptions of (in)definitenesses in natural languages. It was shown that more than half of existing natural languages do not have (in)definite articles and it is realized in other linguistic means. The current study also reviews article uses in artificial languages, such as Esperanto and Unish, concluding that in order for the language learners to be able to acquire a linguistic feature most efficiently, it should be as typologically neutral as possible.
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A number of second and third language acquisition studies have been conducted on the acquisition of articles in order to examine the learnabilities of the feature from various L1 backgrounds, such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Turkish among many others. Numerous studies have revealed ongoing difficulties of acquiring (in)definite articles by L2 and L3 language learners even at the most advanced stages of acquisition. Considering the issue of learnabilities of articles, it would be interesting and meaningful to investigate how (in)definiteness is realized in natural languages and figure out whether using articles to denote (in)definiteness is a predominant phenomenon or not. Therefore, the current paper examined the typologlogical database—World Atlas of Linguistic Structures and presented descriptions of (in)definitenesses in natural languages. It was shown that more than half of existing natural languages do not have (in)definite articles and it is realized in other linguistic means. The current study also reviews article uses in artificial languages, such as Esperanto and Unish, concluding that in order for the language learners to be able to acquire a linguistic feature most efficiently, it should be as typologically neutral as possible.
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