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Garden Path Sentences and Error Data in Second Language Sentence Processing.

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Juffs, Alan; Harrington, Michael – Language Learning, 1996

Expands on the authors' (1995) investigation of the parsing performance on "wh"-movement sentences by Chinese-speaking learners of English. The article compares the difficulty second-language learners have in parsing subject "wh"-traces in embedded finite and nonfinite clauses with the problems they have in parsing Garden Path…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)

Acquisition of Base-Generated Topics by English-Speaking Learners of Chinese.

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Yuan, Boping – Language Learning, 1995

Investigated the acquisition of base-generated topics in Mandarin Chinese by British students learning Chinese. The hypothesis is not confirmed that it would not be difficult for English speakers to acquire the base-generated topic in Chinese because in the acquisition of Chinese, English-speaking learners are exposed to positive evidence of…

Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar