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Abrahamsson, Niclas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study deals with the development and recoverability of word-final codas in Chinese-Swedish interlanguage. The relation between consonant deletion and vowel epenthesis is investigated from both a developmental perspective and a grammatical-functional one. Longitudinal, conversational data from three Chinese beginner learners of Swedish were…
Descriptors: Validity, Language Proficiency, Swedish, Uncommonly Taught Languages
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Eckman, Fred R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
Testing of the validity of two implicational universals regarding consonant clusters, involving the analysis of the interlanguage of native-speaking Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students of English-as-a-Second-Language, was strongly supportive of the two universals, suggesting the possibility that primary language universals hold also for…
Descriptors: Chinese, Consonants, English (Second Language), Interlanguage