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Behaviours of "wh"-Words in English Speakers' L2 Chinese "wh"-Questions: Evidence of No Variability, Temporary Variability and Persistent Variability in L2 Grammars
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Yuan, Boping – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
This paper presents an empirical study of how different "wh"-words behave in English speakers' L2 Chinese "wh"-questions. Our results indicate that L2 Chinese "wh"-questions are specified by the Chinese "wh" -particle ne and that there is neither variability nor L1 transfer in this aspect of L2 grammars as no "wh"-movement is found in English…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism