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Peer reviewedDuff, Patricia A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993
Analyzed longitudinal data from 28-year-old Cambodian man who, despite instruction in English-as-Second-Language and residence in English-speaking community, used form "has" for both possessives (PO) and existentials (EX). Shared semantic properties of PO/EX, together with syntactic, pragmatic, perceptual characteristics of native…
Descriptors: Cambodian, English (Second Language), Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning
