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Pierce, Lara J.; Genesee, Fred; Paradis, Johanne – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Acquisition of English grammatical morphology was examined in five internationally adopted (IA) children from China (aged 0;10-1;1 at adoption) during the first three years' exposure to English to determine whether acquisition patterns were characteristic of child second language (L2) learners or monolingual first language (L1) learners. Results…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Paradis, Johanne; Schneider, Phyllis; Duncan, Tamara Sorenson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors sought to determine whether a combination of English-language measures and a parent questionnaire on first-language development could adequately discriminate between English-language learners (ELLs) with and without language impairment (LI) when children had diverse first-language backgrounds. Method:…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Paradis, Johanne; Rice, Mabel L.; Crago, Martha; Marquis, Janet – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2), and specific language impairment (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain whether the L2 children's tense acquisition patterns were similar or dissimilar to those of the L1 and SLI…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Language Impairments