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Combiths, Philip N.; Barlow, Jessica A.; Potapova, Irina; Pruitt-Lord, Sonja – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The emergence of tense-morpheme marking during language acquisition is highly variable, which confounds the use of tense marking as a diagnostic indicator of language impairment in linguistically diverse populations. In this study, we seek to better understand tense-marking patterns in young bilingual children by comparing phonological…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
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Tedick, Diane J.; Young, Amy I. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Two-way immersion (TWI) programs in the U.S. integrate learners with different home languages and varied proficiencies in Spanish and English. Although both English home language (EHL) and Spanish home language (SHL) TWI students succeed academically in English, they often experience incomplete acquisition (Montrul 2011. "Morphological Errors…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Spanish, English, Language Usage
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Goldin, Michele – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Cross-linguistically, monolingual children produce target-like inflected verbs much earlier than they can reliably distinguish between singular and plural subject-verb agreement morphology in comprehension (i.e. Johnson, V., J. de Villiers, and H. Seymour. 2005. "Agreement Without Understanding? The Case of Third Person Singular /s/."…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
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Perales, Susana – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
This paper addresses the issue of whether negative sentences containing auxiliary "do" in L1 and L2 English share the same underlying syntactic representation. To this end, I compare the negative sentences produced by 77 bilingual (Spanish/Basque) L2 learners of English with the corresponding data available for L1 acquirers reported on in Schutze…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphemes, Syntax, English (Second Language)