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Direct linkChia-Hsuan Liao; Ellen Lau – Second Language Research, 2024
Event concepts of common verbs (e.g. "eat," "sleep") can be broadly shared across languages, but a given language's rules for subcategorization are largely arbitrary and vary substantially across languages. When subcategorization information does not match between first language (L1) and second language (L2), how does this…
Descriptors: Verbs, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, English
Chang, Yufen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
First language (L1) attrition research focuses on syntactic and morphological deterioration in environments where L1 "attriters" rarely have contact with their L1, such as immigrants. There is no study that investigates L1 attrition in tones and in contexts where L1 can still be often heard. This study examines this attrition type in…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Foreign Countries, Tone Languages, Syntax
Download full textChou, Chun-Hui; Bartz, Kevin – California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2007
This paper evaluates the effect of Chinese non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) on Chinese ESL students' struggles with English syntax. The paper first classifies Chinese learners' syntactic errors into 10 common types. It demonstrates how each type of error results from an internal attempt to translate a common Chinese construction into…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
