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Publication details [#44021]

Ishida, Kazutoh. 2006. How can you be so certain? The use of hearsay evidentials by English-speaking learners of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (8) : 1281–1304.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | evidential | L2-acquisition | language transfer

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study presents a systematic analysis of the use of hearsay evidentials by English-speaking learners of Japanese in both Japanese and English, and it empirically investigates whether there is a language transfer effect.