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Peer reviewedJin, Hong Gang – Language Learning, 1994
Investigated whether topic-prominence transfer is a universal developmental stage or a transferable typology by analyzing the behavior of 46 native speakers of English learning Chinese, a subject-prominence (SP) language, as a second language. Results found that the learners displayed a process of systematically transferring English SP features to…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Distinctive Features (Language), English
