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Acquisition of Dutch as a Second Language: The Explanative Power of Cognate and Genetic Linguistic Distance Measures for 11 West European First Languages
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Van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This study reports on the impact of 11 West European first languages on the acquisition of Dutch. Using data from nearly 6,000 second-language learners, it was found that the mother tongue had a rather large impact on two language skills--namely, oral and written proficiency--as measured by the scores received by these learners on the State…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Classification, Writing Skills
Development of Relativization in Korean as a Foreign Language: The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy in Head-Internal and Head-External Relative Clauses
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Jeon, K. Seon; Kim, Hae-Young – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
This study examines how Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) intersects with the typological characteristics of Korean in the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs). Korean has two types of RC constructions: head-external and head-internal. The head-external relative has its head to the right of the RC, whereas the…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Nouns, Phrase Structure