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Silva-Corvalan, Carmen; Montanari, Simona – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
This article studies the acquisition of copulas by a Spanish-English bilingual between the ages of 1;6 and 3;0, examines the possibility of interlanguage influence, and considers the distributional frequencies of copular constructions in the speech of the child and in the language input from adults. The study is of interest because the bilingual…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Linguistic Input, Bilingualism