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Peer reviewedDekydtspotter, Laurent; Sprouse, Rex A.; Swanson, Kimberly A. B. – Language Acquisition, 2001
Presents the results of an empirical study of the interpretation of left branch "combien" (how many) extractions in English-French interlanguage. Results show that knowledge of the interpretation of left-branch "combien" extraction is detectable in English-French interlanguage. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, English, French, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedNeeleman, Ad; Weerman, Fred – Language Acquisition, 1997
Discusses first- and second-language word order acquisition. A version of the OV/VO parameter is developed that is not construction specific. It relates various empirical domains, including basic word order, scrambling, exceptional case marking, and the distribution of particles. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedDekydtspotter, Laurent; Sprouse, Rex A.; Anderson, Bruce – Language Acquisition, 1997
This study documents the sensitivity of English-French interlanguage to the process-result distinction with respect to the licensing of multiple postnominal genitives, despite a lack of direct positive or negative evidence for this distinction in the input. Documentation argues that the Universal Grammar-governed map between syntactic structures…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, French, Grammar
