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Pae, Hye K.; Schanding, Brian; Kwon, Yeon-Jin; Lee, Yong-Won – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
This study investigated the tendency of overpassivization of unaccusative verbs by Korean learners of English as a foreign language (FL). Sixty Korean native college students participated in the study, along with 17 English-speaking counterparts serving as a comparison group. Consistent with the findings of previous research, this study found…
Descriptors: Verbs, Korean, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Crain, Stephen; Goro, Takuya; Thornton, Rosalind – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met. By contrast, experience-based approaches to language acquisition…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Child Language