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Peer reviewedBates, Elizabeth; Devescovi, Antonella; D'Amico, Simona – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Examined the extent to which cross-linguistic differences in sentence interpretation would generalize to complex sentences with an embedded clause. College students who were native speakers of English or Italian completed four experiments. Results indicated that cross-linguistic differences were maintained when students interpreted complex…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
