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How People Listen to Languages They Don't Know.

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Lorch, Marjorie Perlman; Meara, Paul – Language Sciences, 1989

Investigation of how 19 adult males listened to and recognized unknown foreign languages (Farsi, Punjabi, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic, Urdu) indicated that the untrained listeners made complex judgments in describing, transcribing, and identifying phonetic, segmental, suprasegmental, and other impressionistic language details. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Arabic, Indonesian, Language Patterns, Language Research

Evidence of Lexical Transfer in Learner Syntax: The Acquisition of English Causatives by Speakers of Hindi-Urdu and Vietnamese.

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Helms-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