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Peer reviewedHelms-Park, Rena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
Reports the findings of a study in which transfer of verb properties was investigated via syntactic data elicited from second language learners. The performance of Hindi-Urdu speakers on tests of English causatives was compared with that of Vietnamese speakers, because there are five significant differences between causativization patterns in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Hindi, Language Patterns
