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Peer reviewedMontrul, Silvina – Language Learning, 2001
Investigates whether Spanish- and Turkish-speaking learners of English discover the semantic and syntactic constraints on the causative/inchoative alternation in the absence of overt morphological clues. Results of a picture judgment task show that second language learners do discover these properties and that overall verbs appear to cluster in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage, Morphology (Languages)
