English and Japanese word associations and syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift of Japanese children learning English as a second language

Research in word association studies found that children give predominantly syntagmatic responses (responses from different form classes from stimuli). English children were found to undergo a shift to paradigmatic (responses from the same form classes as stimuli) before age ten (referred to as S-P...

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Main Author: Yasutake, Yuko
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25540