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Markedness, Operator Movement, and Discourse Effects in the Acquisition of Purpose Clause Constructions in a Second Language.
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Finney, Malcolm A. – Second Language Research, 1997
A study investigated late emergence, in learners of English as a Second Language, of the ability to interpret object gaps in purpose clauses (PCs). Subjects were 34 adult native speakers of French. Results indicate difficulty interpreting only PCs with prepositional object gaps, supporting the hypothesis that syntactically marked construction may…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)