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Kempe, Vera; MacWhinney, Brian – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Investigated the acquisition of the comprehension of overt morphological case marking by adult native speakers of English who were learning Russian or German as a second language. Results demonstrated that learners of Russian use case marking much earlier than learners of German and that learners of German rely more on animacy to supplement the…
Descriptors: Adults, Case (Grammar), German, Morphology (Languages)