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The Proceedings of GASLA IV are now available from the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. GASLA IV was held at the University of Pittsburgh in September 1998. Only a limited number of copies are available, so please order early. The cost is $15 including postage. We can only accept checks drawn on US Banks in US dollars or money orders in US dollars. Please make checks payable to: University of Pittsburgh. The address where your check should be sent is: Attn. Roger Freedline (rfreedlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuepitt.edu) Dept. of Linguistics 2816 CL University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA Tel: (412) 624 5900 Here is the Table of Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: THE NATURE OF INTERLANGUAGE REPRESENTATION LYDIA WHITE 3 CLAUSE STRUCTURE IN CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE GRAMMARS USHA LAKSHMANAN 15 PRECONJUNCTIONALS IN CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION SHARON ARMON-LOTEM 40 OPTIMAL QUESTIONS IN L2 ACQUISITION RAKESH M. BHATT 49 THE IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH AND NEAR-NATIVE COMPETENCE: EVIDENCE AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE HYPOTHESIS JOYCE L. S. BRUHN DE GARAVITO 62 THE PRIMACY OF SYNTAX AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: THE INTERPRETATION OF COMBIEN EXTRACTIONS IN ENGLISH-FRENCH INTERLANGUAGE LAURENT DEKYDTSPOTTER, REX A. SPROUSE & KIMBERLY A. B. SWANSON 73 PRINCIPLES OF L2 PHONOLOGY: THE QUESTION OF LEARNABILITY FRED R. ECKMAN AND GREGORY K. IVERSON 85 THE ACQUISITON OF TENSE AND ASPECT IN L2 ENGLISH JOANNE SHER GRUMET 106 SURFACE UNACCUSATIVITY IN L2 JAPANESE SPEAKERS MAKIKO HIRAKAWA 116 THE ACQUISITION OF [T], [H], AND [N] BY CANADIAN FRANCOPHONES DARLENE LACHARITE AND PHILIPPE PREVOST 126 THE ACQUISITION OF INALIENABLE POSSESSION SYNTAX IN L2 SPANISH ANA TERESA PIREZ-LEROUX, GILLIAN LORD, BEATRIZ CENTENO-CORTIS, ERIN O9ROURKE 141 VIETNAMESE LEARNERS: MARKEDNESS DIFFERENTIAL HYPOTHESIS AND ENGLISH CONSONANTS HOA PHAM 152 ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE: ON THE MIRROR WORLD OF CHAOS AND ORDER IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CAROLINA PLAZA-PUST 163 THE USE AND ABUSE OF LINGUISTIC THEORY IN L2 ACQUISITION RESEARCH BONNIE D. SCHWARTZ REX A. SPROUSE 176 EVIDENCE OF TRANSFER: L2 ACQUISITION OF TELICITY IN ENGLISH BY SPANISH AND SLAVIC NATIVE SPEAKERS ROUMYANA SLABAKOVA 188 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (SLA) AS A PROMOTING FACTOR IN LANGUAGE CHANGE DORIS STOLBERG 201 THE ACQUISITION OF POSSESSION IN L2 DUTCH INEKE VAN DE CRAATS, NORBERT CORVER & ROELAND VAN HOUT 213 AN UNEXPECTED WH-PHRASE EXTRACTION ASYMMETRY IN THE ADVANCED L2 ENGLISH OF MALAY SPEAKERS BEE ENG WONG AND ROGER HAWKINS 226 ORIGINAL PROGRAM 242 GASLA PRESENTERS: MAILING ADDRESSES 246