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Some Thoughts on the Contrastive Analysis of Features in Second Language Acquisition
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Lardiere, Donna – Second Language Research, 2009
In this article I discuss the selection and assembly of formal features in second language acquisition. Assembling the particular lexical items of a second language (L2) requires that the learner reconfigure features from the way these are represented in the first language (L1) into new formal configurations on possibly quite different types of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, English