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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Acquisition of English Sentential Complementation by Adult Speakers of Finnish
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe study reported on here was an investigation into the acquisition of English sentential complementation by adult native speakers of Finnish. A written test consisting of six production tasks and a small comprehension section was administered to forty-three Finnish students studying English at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. The production tasks covered nineteen aspects of complementation, which were classified into thirteen subcategorization categories and six syntactic categories. There were three administrations of the test over a nine-month period.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Schwarte, Barbara Sue
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8114479
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66715