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Loukatou, Georgia; Scaff, Camila; Demuth, Katherine; Cristia, Alejandrina; Havron, Naomi – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Despite the fact that in most communities interaction occurs between the child and multiple speakers, most previous research on input to children focused on input from mothers. We annotated recordings of Sesotho-learning toddlers living in non-industrial Lesotho in South Africa, and French-learning toddlers living in urban regions in France. We…
Descriptors: Toddlers, French, African Languages, Language Acquisition
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Prévost, Philippe; Strik, Nelleke; Tuller, Laurie – Second Language Research, 2014
This study investigates how derivational complexity interacts with first language (L1) properties, second language (L2) input, age of first exposure to the target language, and length of exposure in child L2 acquisition. We compared elicited production of "wh"-questions in French in two groups of 15 participants each, one with L1 English…
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Second Language Learning, Sentence Structure