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Download full textWhite, Lydia – 1983
Based on the assumptions that a universal grammar has a number of functional parameters and that in each language, some are not activated, a study was undertaken to investigate two hypotheses. They are (1) that in a grammatical situation where an adult's first language parameter is not activated in the second language, the learner will "lose" the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedYing, H. G. – Language Learning, 1996
Investigates adult second language learners' processing of English syntactically ambiguous sentences in which a prepositional phrase is interpreted as either a noun phrase or verb phrase attachment. Results reveal lexical, syntactic, prosodic, and contextual constraints on processing ambiguous sentences. (87 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
