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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-08-01
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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 |