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"Quelque Chose...De Remarquable" in English-French Acquisition: Mandatory, Informationally Encapsulated Computations in Second Language Interpretation
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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Hathorn, Jon C. – Second Language Research, 2005
We discuss the results of an experiment that investigates English-French learners' interpretation of quantifiers with detachable restrictions. Such quantifiers are ungrammatical in English. We investigate aspects of interpretation that rely on a highly idiosyncratic interface between grammar and general principles of conversational cooperation in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar