Plural marking in the second language: Atomicity, definiteness, and transfer.
This paper examines whether second language (L2)-English learners whose native languages (L1; Korean and Mandarin) lack obligatory plural marking transfer the properties of plural marking from their L1s, and whether transfer is manifested both offline (in a grammaticality judgment task) and online (...
| Publicado en: | Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 549 - 579 |
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Cambridge University Press
May2021
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