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Peer reviewedChipere, Ngoni – Language Awareness, 2001
Examined whether variations in adult native speaker performance arise from variations in working memory capacity or variations in procedural grammatical competence. Three groups of 18-year-old native speakers of English were tested on comprehension and recall of English complex noun phrase constructions. Results support the view that variations in…
Descriptors: Adults, Communicative Competence (Languages), English, English (Second Language)
Download full textHardison, Debra M. – 1992
A study investigated the role of pragmatics, the factors that govern choice of language in social interaction, on interpretation of elliptical verb phrases (VPs) in spoken English by learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Ellipsis requires the listener to recall the surface form of a presupposed element and to integrate it into the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Research
