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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"wh-extraction"”.
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Spanish-Speaking Learners' Acquisition of English VPE and WH-Extraction Out of VPE
… second language (L2) acquisition issues: whether and to what extent the L2 learner's first language (L1) and Universal Grammar (UG) respectively play a role in L2 development. Targeting English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) and wh-extraction out of VPE, four acceptability judgment tasks (AJT) …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… learners of English are capable of processing wh-dependencies incrementally and observing the grammatical constraints that regulate wh-extraction in English, similar to native speakers. The study included two self-paced reading experiments run in a word-by-word non-cumulative moving window …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… acquisition of syntactic island constraints on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). According to the Full Transfer/Full Access …