The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding.

White, Lydia; And Others

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Publication Date: 1997

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The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding.

White, Lydia; And Others

Language Learning, v47 n1 p145-72 Mar 1997

Studies on second-language acquisition of reflexives have experienced difficulties assessing learners' knowledge of the binding principles because of problems associated with ambiguous sentences where there is more than one antecedent for a reflexive. In this study, English-as-a-Second-Language students were tested using a variety of sentence types in two truth-value judgments. (22 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Native Speakers, Pictorial Stimuli, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure, Story Grammar, Summer Programs, Task Analysis

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