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Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan; Harrington, Michael – Language Learning, 1996
Expands on the authors' (1995) investigation of the parsing performance on "wh"-movement sentences by Chinese-speaking learners of English. The article compares the difficulty second-language learners have in parsing subject "wh"-traces in embedded finite and nonfinite clauses with the problems they have in parsing Garden Path…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan – Language Learning, 1998
Investigated how adult learners of English-as-a-Second- Language (ESL) process sentences containing verbs that are temporarily ambiguous in interpretation between a main verb and a reduced relative clause. Seventeen Chinese, 17 Korean or Japanese, and 17 Romance learners with advanced ESL proficiency and a comparison group of 17 monolingual native…
Descriptors: Adults, Advanced Students, Ambiguity, Comparative Analysis
