Publications

Publication details [#31412]

Newport, Elissa L., Douglas L. Medin, Jacqueline S. Johnson and Kenneth D. Shenkman. 1996. Indeterminacy in the Grammar of Adult Language Learners. Journal of Memory and Language : 335–352.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | indeterminacy | knowledge | L2-acquisition | language proficiency

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0749-596X

Journal WWW

www.idealibrary.com/

Annotation

This paper investigates the formal nature of the grammar formed by adult Chinese learners of English in the US. It is concluded that late language learning differs from native learning both in the ultimate level of attained performance and in the nature of that knowledge.