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Peer reviewedRegister, Norma – Language Learning, 1990
Analysis of the responses of Spanish, Chinese, and German learners of English-as-a-Second-Language to English sentences with empty pronominal categories found that, although empty pronouns were pragmatically more natural in finite clauses of Spanish and Chinese than in English or German, only the Spanish subjects had significantly higher mean…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), German
