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Pair-List Readings in Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese and English-Japanese Interlanguage
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Marsden, Heather – Second Language Research, 2008
In English and Chinese, questions with a "wh"-object and a universally quantified subject (e.g. "What did everyone buy?") allow an individual answer ("Everyone bought apples.") and a pair-list answer ("Sam bought apples, Jo bought bananas, Sally bought..."). By contrast, the pair-list answer is reportedly unavailable in Japanese and Korean. This…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Syntax, Interlanguage