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The Structural Conformity Hypothesis and the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters in the Interlanguage of ESL Learners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Fred R. Eckman
Fred R. Eckman
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University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Abstract

The validity of two implicational universals regarding consonant clusters was tested in an analysis of the interlanguage of 11 subjects who were native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The results were strongly supportive of the two universals, suggesting the possibility that primary language universals hold also for nonprimary languages.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 23 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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