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Davidson, Denise; Vanegas, Sandra B.; Hilvert, Elizabeth; Rainey, Vanessa R.; Misiunaite, Ieva – Journal of Child Language, 2019
In this study, monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Spanish, English/Urdu) five- and six-year-old children completed a grammaticality judgment test in order to assess their awareness of the grammaticality of two types of syntactic constructions in English: word order and gender representation. All children were better at detecting…
Descriptors: English, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
Walkow, Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores the interaction of syntax and morphology in the morphological realization of AGREE-relations. I present two case studies of derivational interactions of AGREE-processes where the morphological realization of the later processes are affected by the earlier ones. The two cases studied differ in the way probes and goals…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Case Studies, Grammar
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Davidson, Denise; Raschke, Vanessa R.; Pervez, Jawad – Cognitive Development, 2010
In two experiments, bilingual (Urdu and English) 5- and 6-year-old children outperformed their monolingual (English) peers when asked to detect grammatically incorrect sentences on a syntactic awareness test. This result occurred when children were tested in English (Experiment 1) and when they were tested in English or in Urdu (Experiment 2).…
Descriptors: Sentences, Monolingualism, Urdu, English