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ERIC Number: EJ542937
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding.
White, Lydia; And Others
Language Learning, v47 n1 p145-72 Mar 1997
Studies on second-language acquisition of reflexives have experienced difficulties assessing learners' knowledge of the binding principles because of problems associated with ambiguous sentences where there is more than one antecedent for a reflexive. In this study, English-as-a-Second-Language students were tested using a variety of sentence types in two truth-value judgments. (22 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Native Speakers, Pictorial Stimuli, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure, Story Grammar, Summer Programs, Task Analysis
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Antecedents; Reflexives