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Publication Date: 1987
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The Selective Use of Specific Exemplars in Second-Language Performance: The Case of the Dative Alternation.
Tanaka, Shigenori
Language Learning, v37 n1 p63-88 Mar 1987
Students in freshmen English classes (N=273) at a Japanese university were given translation and acceptability judgment tests involving the verb "give" (in text). The selective use of two predicate structures for "give" in appropriate contexts of usage were examined: (1) GIVE (noun phrase NP and participial phrase PP) and (2) GIVE NP NP. Author/LMO
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Japanese, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Piagetian Theory, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax, Transfer of Training, Translation, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Verbs
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