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Keating, Gregory D.; VanPatten, Bill; Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The position of antecedent strategy (Carminati, 2002) claims that speakers of null-subject languages prefer to resolve intrasentential anaphora by linking pro to an antecedent in the specifier of the inflection phrase and the overt pronoun to an antecedent lower in the clause. The present study has two aims: (a) to determine whether adult early…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Spanish
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De Jong, Nel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
This study examines whether aural processing of input in a situation of implicit instruction can build a knowledge base that is available for both comprehension and production tasks. Fifty-five Dutch students learned a miniature linguistic system based on Spanish. Three training conditions were compared in which noun-adjective gender agreement was…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Listening Comprehension Tests