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Yan Wing LEUNG

Associate Professor of Civic Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Verified email at ied.edu.hk
Cited by 926

Gender and number agreement in nonnative Spanish

…, M Kozlowska–Macgregor, YKI Leung - Applied …, 2004 - cambridge.org
This paper reports on an experiment investigating the acquisition of Spanish, a language that
has a gender feature for nouns and gender agreement for determiners and adjectives, by …

L2 vs. L3 initial state: A comparative study of the acquisition of French DPs by Vietnamese monolinguals and Cantonese–English bilinguals

YI Leung - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2005 - cambridge.org
This paper compares the initial state of second language acquisition (L2A) and third language
acquisition (L3A) from the generative linguistics perspective. We examine the acquisition …

Accounting for English article interpretation by L2 speakers

…, C Jaensch, Y Jeon, A Jiang, YI Leung… - EUROSLA …, 2006 - jbe-platform.com
Ionin, Ko and Wexler (2004a) have shown that L2 speakers of English whose L1’s lack
articles (Russian and Korean) appear to fluctuate in their interpretation of the and a, allowing …

Null objects in L1 Thai-L2 English-L3 Chinese: An empiricist take on a theoretical problem

SN Ranong, YI Leung - Third language acquisition and universal …, 2009 - degruyter.com
The study of crosslinguistic influence or language transfer1 has generated much intense
interest in the field of Second Language Acquisition L2A) for a few decades (see Andersen, …

Third language acquisition: why it is interesting to generative linguists

YI Leung - Second Language Research, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The present article reviews three collections of papers edited by Cenoz and colleagues on
the topic of third language (L3) acquisition from perspectives including psycholinguistics, …

[BOOK][B] Third language acquisition and universal grammar

YI Leung - 2009 - books.google.com
… Copyright© 2009 Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and the authors of individual chapters. All rights
reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission …

trans-10,cis-12-Conjugated Linoleic Acid Isomer Exhibits Stronger Oxyradical Scavenging Capacity than cis-9,trans-11-Conjugated Linoleic Acid Isomer

YH Leung, RH Liu - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2000 - ACS Publications
Although studies have been performed to test whether conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) acts
as an antioxidant, the results were not conclusive. In addition, the CLA widely used in …

[HTML][HTML] Explicating perceived sustainability-related climate: A situational motivator of pro-environmental behavior

YW Leung, S Rosenthal - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Individuals take cues from their surroundings when deciding whether to perform pro-environmental
behaviors. Previous studies have acknowledged the role of structural, policy, and …

Let's nab fake science news: Predicting scientists' support for interventions using the influence of presumed media influence model

SS Ho, TJ Goh, YW Leung - Journalism, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Fake science news is a type of fake news that can threaten the credibility of the scientific
community. Scientists’ attention to fake science news can indirectly influence the way they react …

[PDF][PDF] Failed features versus full transfer full access in the acquisition of a third language: Evidence from tense and agreement

YI Leung - Proceedings of the 6th generative approaches to …, 2003 - Citeseer
This paper is concerned with the verbal functional domain in third language acquisition (henceforth
L3A). In the author’s earlier work on L3A of the nominal functional domain (Leung