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Dallas, Andrea; DeDe, Gayle; Nicol, Janet – Language Learning, 2013
The current study employed a neuro-imaging technique, Event-Related Potentials (ERP), to investigate real-time processing of sentences containing filler-gap dependencies by late-learning speakers of English as a second language (L2) with a Chinese native language background. An individual differences approach was also taken to examine the role of…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory
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Tarallo, Fernando; Myhill, John – Language Learning, 1983
A study of English speakers' acquisition of relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, German, and Portugese is reported. Various structures were tested to separate interlanguage features attributable to first language interference from those universal to second language acquisition. Application of an accessibility hierarchy theory and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages), German
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Register, Norma – Language Learning, 1990
Analysis of the responses of Spanish, Chinese, and German learners of English-as-a-Second-Language to English sentences with empty pronominal categories found that, although empty pronouns were pragmatically more natural in finite clauses of Spanish and Chinese than in English or German, only the Spanish subjects had significantly higher mean…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), German
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Schumann, John H. – Language Learning, 1986
Analysis of basilang speech (in terms of word order, reference to time, and reference to space) of Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese speakers of English as a second language indicated that oriental subjects tended not to use prepositions and that Spanish-speaking subjects tended to use "in" to express most locative meanings. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Chinese, Correlation, Discourse Analysis