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Azaz, Mahmoud – Second Language Research, 2020
This article adopts the surface overlap and derivational complexity hypotheses to study crosslinguistic transfer in the adult second language (L2) acquisition of English genitive alternation (between the s-genitives and the of genitives) by intermediate and advanced Egyptian Arabic-speaking learners. While the "s"-genitive (e.g.…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Gutierrez-Mangado, M. Juncal – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
The investigation of the comprehension of L1 relative clauses across different languages has shown that subject relatives (SRs) are acquired earlier and responded to more accurately than object relatives (ORs). Most of this work has been based on SVO nominative-absolutive languages. In this article we present the results obtained in a binary…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Languages, Child Language, Language Acquisition