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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"tense and agreement"”.
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The acquisition of tense and agreement by early child second language learners
… longitudinal study examines the acquisition of tense and agreement morphology by child L2 learners in an early stage of language acquisition. The objectives of this study are twofold. The first is to observe the development of verb inflections and syntactic competence over time from an early …
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Whole-exome sequencing variant prioritization in individuals with tense and agreement marking deficit— a clinical marker of specific language impairment
… is defined by performance on a sensitive and specific measure of grammar impairment, the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (TEGI). The TEGI is known for its ability to distinguish children with and without SLI at a young age (normed for children ages 3;0 to 8;11 years) and is based in …
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One Of A Kind Grammar: The Role Of Sentence Diversity In Children's Grammatical Development
… contribution to children’s subsequent 3rd person tense and agreement marking. Method: Twenty parent-child dyads participated in the study. Spontaneous language samples were collected from parents when children were 21 months of age and from children at 30 months of age. These samples were coded …
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Topics in Turkish syntax : clausal structure and scope
… is the interaction between verbal morphology and the structure?, and (ii) what is the interaction between word order and interpretation? Following Kornfilt (1996) I argue that there are two verbal forms in finite structures: one consists of a participle and a copula, which is inflected for …
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Multilingual Language Acquisition in Arabic-English Speaking Families: The Role of Parent Sex and Parent Education in Caregiver Report of Children’s Language Skills
Introduction. The robust linguistic and clinical research literature focusing on English language acquisition is generally based on a model that presumes that the oral language a child acquires at home without formal instruction is the same language that is used for reading and writing. Arabic …
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Genes and environment in language acquisition : a study of early vocabulary and syntactic development in twins
… is to explore the contributions of heredity and environment to language development using the twin method. This method consists of comparing monozygotic (MZ) twins to dizygotic (DZ) twins to see if MZs have a more similar course of development. Two major aspects of language development are …
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Distributed exponence: The Construction of Remote Tense Phrases
This dissertation examines the morphological and syntactic structures of the verb phrase in two Papuan languages of the Kiwaian family, Island Kiwai and Urama. It is focused on remote tenses, a phenomenon found in both languages. Remote tenses involve locating events within subdivisions of the past …
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Aspects of a Karitiana grammar
… interesting aspects of the phonology and syntax of the Karitiana language. Karitiana is the sole surviving language of the Arikem family (Tupi Stock), spoken today by approximately 200 people living in their own demarcated reservation located 95 Km south of Porto Velho, in the state of …
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Predicting Language Impairment Status: A Risk Factor Model
… Research has shown that genetic, environmental, and developmental factors may influence the course of its development. Because many of these factors are present even before a child is born, it is possible that a child's risk of developing the disorder can be identified long before grammatical …
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The acquisition of finiteness in English by child second language learners in instructed contexts: age of onset and L1 effects
… by investigating the impact of the age of onset and the role of the learners’ L1 on their L2 acquisition. Following Meisel’s hypothesis that children older than 4 will resemble adult L2 acquisition in the domain of inflectional morphology, I investigated how two groups of children of different …
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Uniformity of pronoun case errors in typical development: the association between children's first person and third person case errors in a longitudinal study
… is a property of sentences that codes subjects and objects for their roles in sentences. In the course of typical English language acquisition, some children make errors in marking case on subject position pronouns (e.g., Me do it, Him like it; Huxley, 1970; Rispoli, 1994; Schütze & Wexler, …
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Phonological working memory and finiteness marking in typical development
… as indexed on nonword repetition (NWR) tasks, and finiteness-related grammatical processing, as indexed by grammaticality judgment. These fundamental language abilities make particularly alluring candidates for investigation due to their central role in language development and academic …