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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"L1 effects"”.
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The acquisition of finiteness in English by child second language learners in instructed contexts: age of onset and L1 effects
… the age of onset and the role of the learners’ L1 on their L2 acquisition. Following Meisel’s hypothesis that children older than 4 will resemble adult L2 acquisition in the domain of inflectional morphology, I investigated how two groups of children of different L1s and older than 4 learn the …
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L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition and Processing of the English Genitive Alternation: Combining Learner Corpus and Psycholinguistic Methodologies
… to an equivalent structure in the learner’s L1 (surface overlap); (b) the derivational complexity of the target structure itself; and (c) the particular demands of the L2 task. This thesis investigates the influence of L1 transfer on L2 production, comprehension and processing among L1 …
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Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology
… two pairs of adult Malaysians with different L1 backgrounds (i.e., Malay and Chinese). While many of the non-standard features supplied could be explained by substrate influence, there were also features resembling general second language (L2) behaviours and creative innovation. The MAIN STUDY …