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Direct linkKrishnan, Gayathri G.; Raghunathan, Arathi; Sarma, Vaijayanthi M. – First Language, 2023
In this article, we present an analysis of the complexity of grammatical constraints and their impact on early language acquisition of inflectional morphemes in Malayalam. We use the natural speech production data of two monolingual children acquiring Malayalam between the ages 1;9-2;10 and 2;3-3;0 and three bilingual children acquiring…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grammar, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
Otwinowska, Agnieszka; Opacki, Marcin; Mieszkowska, Karolina; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Wodniecka, Zofia; Haman, Ewa – First Language, 2022
Polish and English differ in the surface realization of the underlying Determiner Phrase (DP): Polish lacks an article system, whereas English makes use of articles for both grammatical and pragmatic reasons. This difference has an impact on how referentiality is rendered in both languages. In this article, the authors investigate the use of…
Descriptors: Polish, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Transfer of Training
Price-Williams, David; Davies, Matt – First Language, 2023
Complex systems of inflectional morphology provide a useful testing ground for input-based language acquisition theories. Two analyses were performed on a high-density (12%) naturalistic sample of two Polish-English children's (2;0 and 3;11) and their parents' use of Polish noun inflection: first, each child's use of inflectional affixes and their…
Descriptors: Polish, Nouns, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
Zhan, Ying – First Language, 2021
This study examines the role of agency in a young trilingual child's language choice in interaction with her Mandarin-speaking grandparents. The child was born in Japan to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father. English is used as a lingua franca in the family. The study demonstrates how the child asserts her agency to negotiate the decisions and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Personal Autonomy, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration
Ge, Haoyan; Matthews, Stephen; Cheung, Lawrence Yam-leung; Yip, Virginia – First Language, 2017
This corpus-based study demonstrates a case of bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of right-dislocation by Cantonese-English bilingual children and interprets the results in relation to Hulk and Müller's hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence. Longitudinal data reveal qualitative and quantitative differences between…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Sino Tibetan Languages, Transfer of Training
