Unraveling inflection in child L2 development
Taking a comparative, developmental perspective, this paper focuses on child nonnative language (L2) acquisition, an understudied area despite its (virtually untapped) potential to inform our understanding of developmental linguistics more generally. Is child L2 acquisition more like native language...
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| में प्रकाशित: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aile, |
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| स्वरूप: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| भाषा: | Anglais |
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Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère
2011
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| सारांश: | Taking a comparative, developmental perspective, this paper focuses on child nonnative language (L2) acquisition, an understudied area despite its (virtually untapped) potential to inform our understanding of developmental linguistics more generally. Is child L2 acquisition more like native language (L1) acquisition or adult L2 acquisition (or neither)? Attempts at answering this question come from two recent models of child L2 acquisition, i.e. Weerman (2002) and Schwartz (2004a); the purpose of this paper is to evaluate each against developmental data from two recent studies on the child L2 acquisition of verbal inflection (and syntax). Each test-case study investigates the development of subject-verb agreement by groups of L1 English-speaking children whose exposure to the Target Language (German, Spanish) began around age 5. Comparisons are made between the child L2 data and data from both L1 children and L2 adults as well as between the principal (nonconvergent) findings of these two test cases. |
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