Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence

by N Chipere, Ngoni Chipere Dr, N. Chipere

Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? The answer to this question has very important consequences for both theoretical and applied concerns in linguistics and education. This book is distinctive in giving an historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the rule- based and experience-based debate and in supporting an integrated account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349431028
• ISBN13: 9781349431021
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"