Regular Verbs, Past Tense, and Frequency: Tracking Down a Potential Source of NS/NNS Competence Differences.

Beck, Marie-Luise

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ERIC Number: EJ547486

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Publication Date: 1997

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Regular Verbs, Past Tense, and Frequency: Tracking Down a Potential Source of NS/NNS Competence Differences.

Beck, Marie-Luise

Second Language Research, v13 n2 p93-115 Apr 1997

Points out that earlier research (1991) indicates that adult second language (L2) learners have difficulties determining the relationship between obligatory verb-raising and verbal inflection. Results of the experiments reported here indicate that L2 competence includes a deficit affecting only the lexical or morphosyntactic mechanisms involved in verb-raising. (37 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Surveys, Syntax, Tenses (Grammar), Verbs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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