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Peer reviewedWilliams, Jessica – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988
An examination of native and non-native speakers'use of zero anaphora in English production found a similar general discourse function across the groups, although the English was frequently ungrammatical by prescriptive standards. There were important quantitative and structural differences between speaker groups in use of the device. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Variation
