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dc.contributor.authorKwame, Abukari
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-19T09:21:30Z
dc.date.available2021-04-19T09:21:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-10
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the acquisition of articles in L2 English by L1 speakers of Dagbani, a Gur language spoken in Ghana. Dagbani differs from English in that it has two definite articles, no indefinite article, and a zero-article which may express definiteness, indefiniteness as well as genericity. The study consisted of a Forced-choice task (FCT) and an Acceptability judgement task (AJT) which were administered to Dagbani teenagers with an intermediate proficiency in English (n = 45) and a group of native English speakers as controls (n = 8). The results showed that the learners’ article choice was based on definiteness, not specificity (i.e., no fluctuation between the two) and that they had slightly more problems with indefinite than definite contexts, while generic contexts were the most problematic. Except for a certain task effect as well as a possible interference of instruction (in the FCT), the results can be argued to generally be due to influence from the L1 and to the difficulty of feature reassembly.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKwame A, Westergaard M. The acquisition of English articles among L1 Dagbani L2 English learners. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1846745
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2020.20
dc.identifier.issn0008-4131
dc.identifier.issn1710-1115
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/20933
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalCanadian Journal of Linguistics
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleThe acquisition of English articles among L1 Dagbani L2 English learnersen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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