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Peer reviewedEckman, Fred; And Others – Language Learning, 1989
The validity of 2 implicational universals regarding constituent order in questions is tested in the English speech of 14 native speakers of Japanese, Turkish, and Korean. The interlanguage evidence is found to be generally supportive of the 2 universals. (31 references). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedRegister, 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
Peer reviewedHansen, Lynne – Language Learning, 1986
The performance of native and nonnative Hindi-Urdu speaking children (N=131) and adults (N=30) in the comprehension of the Hindi-Urdu correlative constructions was analyzed. Results indicated that Hindi-Urdu correlative constructs are acquired relatively late by both native and nonnative speakers, suggesting that language universals are available…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Testing
