Subject-Verb Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: What Low Error Rates Hide.

Rubino, Rejane B.; Pine, Julian M.

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Publication Date: 1998

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Subject-Verb Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: What Low Error Rates Hide.

Rubino, Rejane B.; Pine, Julian M.

Journal of Child Language, v25 n1 p35-59 Feb 1998

A study of subject-verb agreement in 3-year-old speakers of Brazilian Portuguese found an overall low error rate, but with important contrasts in both frequency of production of different verb inflections and rate of agreement errors associated with them, suggesting subject-verb agreement is acquired piecemeal and the learning of particular verb inflections may be gradual. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Portuguese, Preschool Children, Regional Dialects, Uncommonly Taught Languages

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Language: English

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