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Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro G. Benati
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 11] 2021
► pp. 111–134

Chapter 6
Processing modern standard Arabic transitive sentences

Investigating L1 transfer and First-Noun Principle effects (with Carl O’Donoghue)

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Background
    • The first noun principle
    • L1 transfer
    • Studies on NVN structures
    • Other studies
  • 6.3Motivation and research questions for the present study
  • 6.4Design
    • Participants
    • Target feature
    • Procedure
    • Instructional materials
    • Assessment task
    • Data analysis procedures and scoring
  • 6.5Results
    • Descriptive statistics
    • Summary of results
  • 6.6Discussion and conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 8 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.11.c6
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