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"Wh-on-Earth" in Chinese Speakers' L2 English: Evidence of Dormant Features
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Yuan, Boping – Second Language Research, 2014
Adopting a decompositional approach to items in the lexicon, this article reports on an empirical study investigating Chinese speakers' second language (L2) acquisition of English "wh-on-earth" questions (i.e. questions with phrases like what on earth or "who on earth"). An acceptability judgment task, a discourse-completion…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Semantics