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ERIC Number: EJ593268
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1226-8909
A Study of the Acquisition of Unaccusative Verbs "Break" and "Fall" by Japanese Learners of English.
Owada, Kazuharu
Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, v3 p319-40 1999
Calls into question the data of grammaticality judgment tasks on which several GB-based studies on the second-language acquisition of accusative verbs by Japanese learners of English base their arguments and reports the results of a pilot study. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Japanese, Language Research, Language Tests, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Task Analysis, Testing, Verbs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Japanese Speaking