Research Interests
Second language acquisition, experimental semantics, syntax/semantics interface
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Ionin, T., & Luchkina, T. (2018). Focus on russian scope: An experimental investigation of the relationship between quantifier scope, prosody, and information structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 49(4), 741-779. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00288
Recent Publications
Ionin, T. (2022). Semantics of Heritage Languages. In S. Montrul, & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (pp. 668-690). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766340.030
Ionin, T., Choi, S. H., & Liu, Q. (2022). What transfers (or doesn't) in the second language acquisition of English articles by learners from article-less native languages? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(2), 133-162. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.19057.ion
Wu, M. J., & Ionin, T. (2022). Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope. Second Language Research, 38(3), 607-637. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658321992830
Choi, S. H., & Ionin, T. (2021). Plural marking in the second language: Atomicity, definiteness, and transfer. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(3), 549-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716420000569
Ionin, T., Choi, S. H., & Liu, Q. (2021). Knowledge of indefinite articles in L2-English: Online vs. offline performance. Second Language Research, 37(1), 121-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658319857466