A corpus-based study of a Chinese-speaking child’s acquisition of English transferred negation

Abstract Native speakers of English have a strong preference for transferred negation as opposed to non-transferred negation. The present study aims to examine whether young Chinese-speaking ESL learners have a target-like preference for transferred negation and whether they have a system-wide repre...

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Main Authors: Huiqin Dai, Xu Wen, Rui Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-08-01
Series:Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40862-022-00147-4