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Universals in Relative Clause Acquisition: Evidence from Child and Adult L1 and L2 Learners of Hindi-Urdu.

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Hansen, Lynne – Language Learning, 1986

The performance of native and nonnative Hindi-Urdu speaking children (N=131) and adults (N=30) in the comprehension of the Hindi-Urdu correlative constructions was analyzed. Results indicated that Hindi-Urdu correlative constructs are acquired relatively late by both native and nonnative speakers, suggesting that language universals are available…

Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Testing

Restructuring or Automaticity? Reading in a Second Language.

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McLeod, Beverly; McLaughlin, Barry – Language Learning, 1986

Adult native English speakers (N=20) and foreign students (N=44; most of them Japanese) enrolled in English as a second language (ESL) courses and completed a reading task and a cloze test to determine reading proficiency and prediction ability. While advanced ESL students made fewer total errors than beginning students, error patterns of all ESL…

Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, English (Second Language)