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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Jiang, Nan – Second Language Research, 2014
The study uses an elicited imitation (EI) task to examine the effect of the native language on the use of the English nongeneric definite article by highly proficient first-language (L1) Spanish and Russian speakers and to test the hierarchy of article difficulty first proposed by Liu and Gleason (2002). Our findings suggest that there is a clear…
Descriptors: Native Language, Native Speakers, English, Russian
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Mueller, Jeansue; Jiang, Nan – Modern Language Journal, 2013
An experiment investigated adult language learners' ability to develop fully integrated cognitive representations of a difficult second language (L2) morphosyntactic feature: the Korean honorific verbal affix "(u)si." Native speaker (NS) and nonnative speaker (NNS) latencies during a word-by-word self-paced reading comprehension task…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Korean, Morphology (Languages)