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Matos, Marta Vacas – Research-publishing.net, 2018
Most of the more serious mistakes we make in our second or third languages are not linked to grammar, but to pragmatics (Félix-Brasdefer, 2008; Kasper & Rose, 1999; Olshtain & Blum-Kulka, 1985; Rose & Kasper, 2001). While language textbooks are often focused on grammar content distributed throughout a communicative syllabus (Lázaro…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Error Patterns, Pragmatics
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Zhang, Hang – Second Language Research, 2016
This article extends Optimality Theoretic studies to the research on second language tone phonology. Specifically, this work analyses the acquisition of identical tone sequences in Mandarin Chinese by adult speakers of three non-tonal languages: English, Japanese and Korean. This study finds that the learners prefer not to use identical lexical…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation, Adults