The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the markedness phenomenon of Do-support as a specificlanguage property poses greater difficulties for adult Arabic-speaking learners thereby bringing about more L1 transfer than the auxiliary verbs BE and HAVE. Do-support in the inter-language of a...

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Main Authors: AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/1/20240-65581-1-PB.pdf

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