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Markedness Considerations in the Acquisition of Conditional Sentences.
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Berent, Gerald P. – Language Learning, 1985
Describes two experiments which assessed the ability of adult second language (L2) learners to produce and comprehend real, unreal, and past unreal English conditional sentences. Developmental differences are analyzed in relation to distinctive features. The analyses lend support to the explanatory power of markedness theory in explaining L2…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)