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Peer reviewedBongaerts, Theo; Poulisse, Nanda – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Explores similarities and differences in native- and second- language referential communication through review of an experiment in which native Dutch speakers described unconventional abstract shapes first in Dutch and then in English. Subjects exhibited a preference, in both languages, for describing shapes in a holistic rather than segmental…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Dutch, English (Second Language), Language Patterns
