Do Sentences in the Second Language Grow Like Those in the First?.

Hunt, Kellogg

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Publication Date: 1970

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Do Sentences in the Second Language Grow Like Those in the First?

Hunt, Kellogg

TESOL Quarterly, 4, 3, 195-202, Sep '70

This article discusses the now established" fact that one aspect of language development in native English speakers is the increasing ability to embed larger and larger numbers of sentence consituents and considers its implications for second language acquisition. (FB)

Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Universals, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Sentences

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