Acquisition of English Grammatical Morphology by Native Mandarin-Speaking Children and Adolescents: Age-Related Differences.

Purpose: This 5-year longitudinal study investigated the acquisition of 6 English grammatical morphemes (i.e., regulaamzr and irregular past tense, 3rd person singular, progressive aspect -ing, copula BE, and auxiliary DO) by 10 native Mandarin-speaking children and adolescents in the United States...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1280 - 1300
Main Authors:	Jia, Gisela, Fuse, Akiko
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association October 2007
Subjects:	Age (Psychology) English as a foreign language English language Morphemics Bilingualism Psychology
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