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Direct linkMontrul, Silvina; de la Fuente, Israel; Davidson, Justin; Foote, Rebecca – Second Language Research, 2013
This study examined whether type of early language experience provides advantages to heritage speakers over second language (L2) learners with morphology, and investigated knowledge of gender agreement and its interaction with diminutive formation. Diminutives are a hallmark of Child Directed Speech in early language development and a highly…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Learning Experience, Nouns, Spanish
Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2005
This study compares the linguistic knowledge of adult second language (L2) learners, who learned the L2 after puberty, with the potentially "eroded" first language (L1) grammars of adult early bilinguals who were exposed to the target language since birth and learned the other language simultaneously, or early in childhood (before age 5). I make…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning
