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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

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The 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

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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

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Author dc:creator
  • Musumeci, Diane Mikolaitis
Contributors dc:contributor
  • VanPatten, Bill

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • Copyright 1989 Musumeci, Diane Mikolaitis
Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
AAI9010964
(UMI)AAI9010964
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22364

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2026-07-22
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citation

Musumeci, Diane Mikolaitis. The ability of second language learners to assign tense at the sentence level: A crosslinguistic study. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22364