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Peer reviewedLegendre, Geraldine; Hagstrom, Paul; Vainikka, Anne; Todorova, Marina – Language Acquisition, 2002
Reanalyzes production data from three French children to make two basic points. Shows that tense and agreement inflection follow independent courses of acquisition (in child French). Using a mechanism of grammatical development based on partial rankings of constraints, analysis successfully models over three stages the frequency with which…
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Language Acquisition, Syntax
Peer reviewedIngham, Richard – Language Acquisition, 1998
Reports a case study of a British 2-year old that shows a stage in syntactic development without a subject agreement protection but with a tense phrase. A sharp contrast in use of verb forms suggests that the child had left the Optional Infinitive stage and entered a transitional stage, where the major development is that the status of the bare…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English, Grammar
