This paper uses corpus-based interlanguage comparative analysis to investigate the similarities and differences in frequency collocations of ten high-frequency prepositions native English speakers' corpus Chinese learners' corpus. The results show that overall these each is on relative level, but there are phenomena overuse underuse when it comes use every single preposition. In addition, found...

Recent studies on the acquisition of putative “relative clauses” (RCs) in East Asian languages have raised the question of whether the Noun Phase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH, or AH) (Keenan & Comrie, 1977) is applicable to those languages. In this paper, I report findings from Chinese as a foreign language learners‟ production data in a sentence combination task. Results from this experiment ...

The paper aims to investigate the sources of crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of voice onset time patterns in third language phonology. Thirty two learners of L3 French with L1 Polish and L2 English were recorded reading lists of words in carrier phrases in the three respective languages. The recordings were analyzed for the degree of aspiration of voiceless stops in stressed onset ...

The Unitarianist Interface Hypothesis proposed by Lotfi (ms.) concerns only one interface level -the Semantico-Phonetic Format which both performance systems can have access to various types of features of a lexical item. This paper hypothesizes the existence of an iconic relationship between formal and phonological features, and the influence of formal features on intonation in Persian speaker...

Veryfew attempts have been made in the past to develop instruments to measure pragmatic knowledge of second language (L2) learners. The absence of such instruments in the literature of English language teaching (ELT) underscores the need for the researchers to develop new tests that are specifically designed to assess this crucial but less explored aspect of language learners’ (LLs) knowledge. ...