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The Selective Use of Specific Exemplars in Second-Language Performance: The Case of the Dative Alternation.
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Tanaka, Shigenori – Language Learning, 1987
Students in freshmen English classes (N=273) at a Japanese university were given translation and acceptability judgment tests involving the verb "give" (in text). The selective use of two predicate structures for "give" in appropriate contexts of usage were examined: (1) GIVE (noun phrase NP and participial phrase PP) and (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education