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50 Years of ERIC
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English1
Grammar1
Interlanguage1
Language Acquisition1
Native Speakers1
Second Language Learning1
Syntax1
Transfer of Training1
Uncommonly Taught Languages1
Source
Second Language Research1
Author
Dube, Busi1
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Guides - General1
Journal Articles1
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Where Are the Minimal Trees? Evidence from Early Zulu L2 Subordination.
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Dube, Busi – Second Language Research, 2000
Argues that functional categories instantiated in the learners' first language (L1) transfer to the initial state of second language syntactic development. On the basis of Zulu interlanguage data on acquisition of the obligatory declarative complementizer "ukuthi" (that) by English native speakers, argues that Comp contains a null complementizer…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Acquisition