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Preface
This study was completed in 1998. There has been a substantial amount of research on the acquisition and use of the English article system from a wide spectrum of theoretical perspectives since the new millennium. Some of the new perspectives and theories in linguistics, psychology, and child language acquisition have been applied to exploring the acquisition process and uses of English articles. The noticeable patterns of article use by speakers of a particular first language (abbreviated L1) have been further investigated, described, and documented. This has been the case, among others, for Chinese (Lardiere, 2004; Leung, 2001; Lu, 2001; Robertson, 2000; White, 2008), Finnish and Swedish (Jarvis, 2002), Japanese (Kaku, 2006), Persian (Geranpayeh, 2000), Polish (Ekiert, 2004), Russian and Korean (Ionin, Ko, & Wexler, 2008), Serbian (Trenkic, 2002), Syrian Arabic (Sarko, 2008); Tai and French (Pongpairoj, 2007), Turkish (White, 2003), and Vietnamese (Thu, 2005). Different types of articles have also been more thoroughly studied individually, as in the case of the definite article the (Liu & Gleason, 2002), the indefinite article a(n) (Ekiert, 2007), and the zero and null articles (Master, 2003). Variability