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Peer reviewedHarley, Birgit; And Others – Language Learning, 1995
Investigates the relationship between age of arrival in the second-language environment and a preference for prosodic versus syntactic cues to sentence interpretation in English. The study found that older English-as-a-Second-Language learners were just as likely as the younger ones to attend to prosody rather than syntax. (43 references)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cantonese, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
