Recent work in both adult and child L2 acquisition has focused on the question of whether morphological variability suggests syntactic impairment, or the lack of overt inflection could be attributable to problems associated with surface morphology (e.g. Lardiere 1998a, b; Haznedar & Schwartz 1997; Prévost & White 2000). This paper examines longitudinal data from three Turkish-speaking child L2 learners of English with special reference to inflected and uninflected verbs, copula be forms, null subjects and case on pronominal subjects. Results show that despite high rates of uninflected verb forms, the children almost never use agreement morphemes for inappropriate tense, person or number. The learners also show higher proficiency in the use of be forms than in the use of main verb inflection.
2020. Variational Learning in Child L2 Acquisition? Comprehension of Verbal Agreement in Spanish and English. Language Learning and Development 16:3 ► pp. 211 ff.
2014. Assessing the so called Marked Inflectional Features of the Nigerian English: a Second Language Acquisition Theory Account. Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura 19:1 ► pp. 15 ff.
Barreña, Andoni & Margareta Almgren
2013. Object–verb and verb–object in Basque and Spanish monolinguals and bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism 17:3 ► pp. 337 ff.
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