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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The ability of second language learners to assign tense at the sentence level: A crosslinguistic study
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe study investigated which cues in the input are used by classroom second language learners in order to assign tense at the sentence level: lexical items (temporal adverbials), gestures (indicating temporal references), and/or verb morphology. Data are reported for 169 learners of Italian, French, and Spanish at the first and third semester levels of L2 study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Italian
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Musumeci, Diane Mikolaitis
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- VanPatten, Bill
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1989 Musumeci, Diane Mikolaitis
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9010964
(UMI)AAI9010964 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22364