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ERIC Number: EJ421515
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-2631
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Grammaticality Judgments: Why Does Anyone Object to Subject Extraction?
Schachter, Jacquelyn; Yip, Virginia
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v12 n4 p379-92 Dec 1990
Responses of native and nonnative English speaking undergraduates regarding the grammaticality of sentences with varying object and subject structures demonstrated that native speakers exhibited a processing preference, as did nonnatives whose native language grammar did not bias them toward another certain structure. (19 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, English (Second Language), Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Korean, Language Processing, Language Research, Native Speakers, Phrase Structure, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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