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Publication details [#43375]

Sharma, Devyani. 2005. Language transfer and discourse universals in Indian English article use. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27 (4) : 535–566.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

article | language transfer | language variety | universalism

Language as a subject

English, Indian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines whether new features in second language Indian English derive primarily from first language transfer or from discourse universals ?