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Peer reviewedChaudron, Craig; Parker, Kate – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990
Investigated the second-language acquisition of English noun phrases in discourse, examining the effect of discourse markedness and structural markedness on the development of the noun phrase. It was found that second language learners distinguish between discourse contexts, acquiring more targetlike forms in the least marked context and least…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Proficiency
