Attainment of Syntactic and Morphological Accuracy by Advanced Language  

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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen ; Bofman, Theodora

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST Th.2001-) vol. 11 no. 1 (Mar. 1989), page 17-34.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/SSL/11 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The present study examines the relationship between syntactic development, or complexity, and overall accuracy evidenced in the written English of advanced adult foreign language learners. Similar acquisition profiles were found to exist for 30 learners across five language groups: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Malay, and Spanish. Syntactic complexity, measured in number of clauses per T -unit, is found to be similar in all five groups. These advanced foreign language learners, who show similar patterns of error distribution, all show relative strength in syntax, what Newport, Gleitman, and Gleitman (1977) call a universal design feature of language, but relative weakness in morphology, which is always a language- specific system.

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