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Cherepovskaia, Natalia; Slioussar, Natalia; Denissenko Denissenko, Anna – Second Language Research, 2022
Using written texts elicited from students with different proficiency levels, we studied the acquisition of nominal cases in Russian as a second language. We established the order in which cases were acquired (nominative, locative, accusative, genitive, instrumental, and dative), as well as certain characteristics of their acquisition…
Descriptors: Russian, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Kulinich, Elena; Royle, Phaedra; Valois, Daniel – First Language, 2019
This study investigates negative feedback effects on inflectional morphology acquisition in Russian. In order to examine the effects of adult feedback on child error elimination and assess the lasting effect of feedback, a series of elicited tasks was conducted with 65 Russian children aged from 3 to 4 years. Twelve verbs which undergo…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Russian, Morphology (Languages), Language Acquisition
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Andreou, Maria; Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria – First Language, 2022
Although a considerable number of studies have shown D(eterminer) elements, i.e. determiners and pronominal clitics, to be particularly vulnerable to impairment in monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), little is known about the use of appropriate or/and grammatically correct referring expressions in the children's…
Descriptors: Greek, Russian, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
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Unlu, Elena Antonova; Hatipoglu, Ciler – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The current research investigated the acquisition of the copula "be" in Present Simple Tense (PST) in English by native speakers of Russian. The aim of the study was to determine whether or not Russian students with different levels of English proficiency would encounter any problems while using the copula "be" in PST in English. The study also…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Russian, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Seva, Nada; Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J.; Mironova, Natalija; Pershukova, Angelina; Fedorova, Olga – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Our previous research showed that Russian children commit fewer gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns than with their simplex counterparts. Experiment 1 replicates this finding with Russian children (N=24, mean 3;7, range 2;10-4;6). Gender agreement was recorded from adjective usage as children described animal pictures given just their…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Language Acquisition
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Isurin, Ludmila; Ivanova-Sullivan, Tanya – Heritage Language Journal, 2008
The present paper looks at the growing population of Russian heritage speakers from a linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective. The study attempts to clarify further the notion of heritage language by comparing the linguistic performance of heritage speakers with that of monolinguals and second language learners. The amount of exposure to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Heritage Education, Task Analysis, Russian