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Structural Surface Overlap and Derivational Complexity in Crosslinguistic Transfer: Acquisition of English Genitive Alternation by Egyptian Arabic-Speaking Learners
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Second Language Research, 2020
This article adopts the surface overlap and derivational complexity hypotheses to study crosslinguistic transfer in the adult second language (L2) acquisition of English genitive alternation (between the s-genitives and the of genitives) by intermediate and advanced Egyptian Arabic-speaking learners. While the "s"-genitive (e.g.…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, English (Second Language)