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Peer reviewedAyoun, Dalila – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Investigates the applicability of the Subset Principle in the second-language acquisition of the Oblique-Case Parameter by 45 learners of French. The results of a grammaticality judgment task and a correction task provide partial support for the Subset Principle. Further research is needed to conclude whether the Oblique-Case Parameter really is a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Error Analysis (Language), French, Grammar
Peer reviewedMcDonald, Janet L.; Heilenman, Kathy L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Investigates the determinants of adult usage of various syntactic and semantic cues in sentence interpretation. Native French speakers and advanced English/French bilinguals were tested for the strength of usage of word order, clitic pronoun agreement, verb agreement, and noun animacy cues in the assignment of the role in French sentences. (46…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cues, English, French
