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Publication details [#35985]

Sasaki, Miyuki. 1990. Topic prominence in Japanese EFL students' existential constructions. Language Learning 40 (3) : 337–368.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

existential utterance | foreign language acquisition | interlanguage | topic

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

The University of Michigan

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses topic prominence in the interlanguage existential constructions of Japanese students of English as a foreign language, and in particular the impact of learners' language proficiency level on topic prominence degree and of elicitation on the generation of target-like constructions.