Linguistic relativity and second language acquisition : investigating the effect of tense on English-Chinese bilinguals’ habitual orientation to event time

• Main Author: Ho, Karen Xian Xi
• Other Authors: Luca Onnis
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62739
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study expanded on the research of Chen, Su and O’Seaghdha (2013), investigating the effects of naturalistic and semi-naturalistic learning on L2 speakers’ cognition in the habitual orientation towards event time. It has been found that cross-linguistic differences in the grammatical marking of...