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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"auxiliary BE"”.
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Creating an SLI performance profile with load
… difficult (third person singular –S and auxiliary BE) and easy (plural –S and progressive –ING) for individuals with SLI. Cognitive load was manipulated through the length of the sentences to be judged, and individual differences in phonological short term memory (PSTM) and working memory …
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The acquisition of tense and agreement by early child second language learners
… included six Chinese-L1 English-L2 children between the ages of 7 and 9, with a length of residence in the United States between four and six months. Data were collected regularly over a period of seven months. Tasks include a conversation with the investigator on general topics, and an …
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BE-ing default : the morphosyntax of auxiliaries
… is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is morphologically or syntactically arbitrary. I argue instead that auxiliary verbs, particularly BE, arise as a result of general …