The L2 production of English comparative structures More support for L2 developmental changes

2012-01-01
Kırkıcı, Bilal
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This study presents the results of an elicited production task on English comparative adjectives conducted with L1 Turkish learners of L2 English. The obtained results indicated processing differences both between the L2 participants and the L1 controls and between the higher and lower proficiency L2 participants. It is claimed that these results provide further support for the view that L2 learners tend to rely more on lexical storage and less on computational processes in the processing of morphologically complex word forms. Secondly, it is argued that the findings lend further support to the view that the processing of L2 morphology changes with increasing proficiency.
Second language, English comparatives, Morphological processing
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71050
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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B. Kırkıcı, “The L2 production of English comparative structures More support for L2 developmental changes,” Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 0–0, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71050.
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