"Tom Eats Slowly Cooked Eggs": Thematic-Verb Raising in L2 Knowledge.

Eubank, Lynn; Bischof, Janine; Huffstutler, April; Leek, Patricia; West, Clint

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Publication Date: 1997

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"Tom Eats Slowly Cooked Eggs": Thematic-Verb Raising in L2 Knowledge.

Eubank, Lynn; Bischof, Janine; Huffstutler, April; Leek, Patricia; West, Clint

Language Acquisition, v6 n3 p171-99 1997

Employs a truth-value task to reexamine native-language (NL) transfer among Chinese-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English--that is, where NL or mature L2 permits verb raising. Discussion includes a comparison with the earlier findings of Eubank and Grace (1996) and analysis of developmental and transfer-based explanations for the observed optimality effects. (Author/JL)

Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Transfer of Training, Verbs

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Language: English

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