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Peer reviewedWhitman, Randall L.; Jackson, Kenneth L. – Language Learning, 1972
Work supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education to the University of Hawaii. (RS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Evaluation
Peer reviewedYuan, 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
Peer reviewedHarley, Birgit; And Others – Language Learning, 1995
Investigates the relationship between age of arrival in the second-language environment and a preference for prosodic versus syntactic cues to sentence interpretation in English. The study found that older English-as-a-Second-Language learners were just as likely as the younger ones to attend to prosody rather than syntax. (43 references)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cantonese, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
