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Chan, HuiPing; Verspoor, Marjolijn; Vahtrick, Louisa – Language Learning, 2015
Taking a dynamic usage-based perspective, this longitudinal case study compares the development of sentence complexity in speaking versus writing in two beginner Taiwanese learners of English (identical twins) in an extensive corpus consisting of 100 oral and 100 written texts of approximately 200 words produced by each twin over 8 months. Three…
Descriptors: Twins, Syntax, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Wu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers