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Causatives and Transitivity in L2 English.
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Montrul, Silvina – Language Learning, 2001
Investigates whether Spanish- and Turkish-speaking learners of English discover the semantic and syntactic constraints on the causative/inchoative alternation in the absence of overt morphological clues. Results of a picture judgment task show that second language learners do discover these properties and that overall verbs appear to cluster in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage, Morphology (Languages)
The Development of L1 and L2 Proficiency in Dutch: A Narrative Analysis of a Picture-Based Story, Told by Turkish and Native Dutch Children at the Ages of Six and Eight.
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Lalleman, Josine A. – Language Learning, 1987
Dutch native children and Turkish immigrant children, born and reared in the Netherlands, were asked to tell a story from a series of pictures, at age six and again at age eight. The Turkish children exhibited about the same level of narrative proficiency in Dutch as their Dutch peers. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch
Language-Mixing in Children's Speech: Dutch Language Use in Turkish Discourse.
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Boeschoten, Hendrik E.; Verhoeven, Ludo Th. – Language Learning, 1987
Data on Dutch-Turkish language-mixing behavior of Turkish children growing up in The Netherlands are presented and analyzed. While functional characteristics of the children's language-mixing were compatible with models from earlier research, structural analysis suggests no universality of surface structure constraint rules for sentence-internal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Code Switching (Language)