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Peer reviewedSasaki, Miyuki – Language Learning, 1990
Investigations of Japanese speakers' interlanguage constructions of English existential sentences with a locative sentential topic found a general shift from topic-comment to subject-predicate structures as proficiency increased. (24 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Japanese, Language Proficiency
