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Distributive Quantifier Scope in English-Japanese and Korean-Japanese Interlanguage
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Marsden, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
This article reports on an experimental investigation of knowledge of distributivity in nonnative (L2) Japanese learners whose first language (L1) is English or Korean. The availability of distributive scope in Japanese is modulated by word order and the semantic features of quantifiers. For English-speaking learners, these subtle interpretive…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Syntax, Word Order
Pair-List Readings in Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese and English-Japanese Interlanguage
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Marsden, Heather – Second Language Research, 2008
In English and Chinese, questions with a "wh"-object and a universally quantified subject (e.g. "What did everyone buy?") allow an individual answer ("Everyone bought apples.") and a pair-list answer ("Sam bought apples, Jo bought bananas, Sally bought..."). By contrast, the pair-list answer is reportedly unavailable in Japanese and Korean. This…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Syntax, Interlanguage