Is it Difficult to Acquire Subjacency and the ECP

This paper aims to examine English- and Japanese-speaking adult learners’ acquisition of Subjacency and the Empty Category Principle (ECP) (Chomsky 1981, 1986) in Chinese. The participants were forty intermediate foreign students of the Mandarin Training Center of Nation Taiwan Normal University: ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chun-yin Doris Chen, Hsin-yi Candy Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2006-06-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume4-1/EasyECP_0611.pdf