The Structural Conformity Hypothesis and the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters in the Interlanguage of ESL Learners

1 March 1991

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Vol. 13 (1) , 23-41
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100009700

Abstract

The validity of two implicational universals regarding consonant clusters was tested in an analysis of the interlanguage of 11 subjects who were native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The results were strongly supportive of the two universals, suggesting the possibility that primary language universals hold also for nonprimary languages.

Keywords

JAPANESE
CHINESE
INTERLANGUAGE
LINGUISTIC THEORY
KOREAN
LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS

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