Another Look At Yes/No Questions: Native Speakers And Non-Native Speakers  

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Williams, Jessica

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 2 (Jun. 1990), page 159-182.
Fulltext: Vol 11, 2, p 159-182.pdf (1.28MB)

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This study examines the production of Yes/No questions by native speakers of English and speakers of Singapore English, a non-native regional variety. The results indicate that there are a number of similarities between the two groups; specifically, both groups appear to prefer an invariant SVO order and tend to eliminate syntactic elements which are semantically redundant. Both groups use a variety of devices, including changes in intonation and final tags, to indicate that these SVO utterances are indeed questions. The findings suggest that our notions of what constitutes target-like use remain ill-defined. As long as native speaker behaviour is assumed or intuited, rather than documented, it is difficult to judge the performance of second language learners, in particular, to state when they have achieved a level of target-like production.

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