Elicited production and grammaticality judgments of regular and irregular past tense use in bilingual children with specific language impairment.
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Title
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Elicited production and grammaticality judgments of regular and irregular past tense use in bilingual children with specific language impairment.
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Identifier
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AAI3047230
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identifier
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3047230
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Creator
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Jacobson, Peggy Freehill.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Richard G. Schwartz
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Date
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2002
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Health Sciences, Speech Pathology | Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
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Abstract
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Little is known regarding the sequential acquisition of two languages. This study focuses on the extent to which theories of morphological representation and processing predict the outcome of second language acquisition in typically and atypically developing early sequential Spanish/English bilinguals. Given the hallmark deficits related to inflectional morphology among monolingual children with specific language impairment (SLI), inflectional morphology may distinguish bilingual children with SLI from bilingual children who are developing normally. Although production of the English past tense is problematic for monolingual children with SLI, less is known regarding bilingual children's production of these forms. This study examined English past tense morphology in early sequential bilingual Spanish/English speaking children, aged 7;0--9;0. Fourteen bilingual children with SLI and 17 typically developing bilingual children (TD) participated. Thirty-six instances of the past tense including regular, irregular, and novel verbs were examined using an elicited production task. The extent to which models of past tense production, specifically, single mechanism connectionist accounts versus dual mechanism, rule-based accounts apply to bilingual situations is addressed, with special attention given to the phenomenon of overregularization. The relationship between vocabulary scores and irregular past tense use was somewhat different than what researchers previously described. Children's performance on a grammaticality judgment task supported the relationship between children's productions and underlying grammatical knowledge for past tense use.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
