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Direct linkO'Grady, William; Yamashita, Yoshie; Lee, Sun-Young – Applied Linguistics, 2005
In this brief report, we summarize the results of an experiment on the interpretation of English word order patterns by adult Korean- and Japanese-speaking second language learners. Our results suggest that a direct relationship between a construction's word order and the structure of the corresponding event has a greater facilitative effect on…
Descriptors: Word Order, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Comprehension
