Why is ‘is’ easier than ‘-s’?: acquisition of tense/agreement morphology by child second language learners of English

By Tania Ionin, Kenneth Wexler. 2002

241 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. J. Paradis
2. Yuko Goto Butler
3. Brahim Chakrani
4. Abdulkafi Albirini
5. Bonnie D Schwartz
6. Lydia White
7. T. Marinis
8. E. Benmamoun

In Language and Linguistics

1. J. Paradis
2. Brahim Chakrani
3. Abdulkafi Albirini
4. Bonnie D Schwartz
5. Lydia White
6. T. Marinis
7. E. Benmamoun
8. Vasiliki Chondrogianni

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of input properties, vocabulary size, and L1 on the development of third person singular –s in child L2 English (2012, unknown): “More recent research that brought English L2 children’s difficulties with 3SG – s to the focus of attention are Haznedar (2001), Ionin and Wexler (2002), and Paradis, Rice, Crago, and Marquis (2008).”
• The interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment (2010, background): “Finally, Paradis et al. (2008) documented the phenomenon of BE overgeneration (Ionin & Wexler, 2002) in the L2 children’s spontaneous speech, which was absent in the speech of the children with SLI and the younger TD L1 children.”
• Why Child L2 Acquisition (2004, background): “See also, for child L2 acquisition, Haznedar and Schwartz (1997); Ionin and Wexler (2002); Lakshmanan (1993/1994), (1995); Lakshmanan and Selinker (1994); Prévost (1997b:180-82), and for adult L2 acquisition, Schwartz (1991:298-300); Vainikka and Young-Scholten (1994:267).”
• Fossilization in steady state L2 grammars: Persistent problems with inflectional morphology (2003, background): “Nevertheless, there has recently been some relevant investigation of suppliance of determiners in the L2 grammars of speakers whose L1s lack articles (Robertson, 2000; Leung, 2001; Ionin and Wexler, to appear), including the grammars of advanced proficiency L2 speakers. Table 2 presents production o”
• Gender and number agreement in the oral production of Arabic Heritage speakers* (2012, background): “…difficulty with gender and number morphology than L1 learners, and they produce systematic errors that may be due to loss or fossilization (Bolonyai, 2007; Choi, 2003; Håkansson, 1995; Ionin & Wexler, 2002; Lardiere, 1998; Pak, 1987; Polinsky, 2006, 2008; Rothman, 2007; Shin & Milroy, 1999).”
• Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children (2011, result): “This is consistent with previous findings on tense marking (Chondrogianni & Marinis, under review; Ionin & Wexler, 2002; Marinis & Chondrogianni, 2010; Paradis, et al., 2008).”
• English language education among young learners in East Asia: A review of current research (2004–2014) (2015, background): “The relative ease with acquiring copula be compared with auxiliary be in English was common among English-learning children with different L1 backgrounds (e.g., Ionin & Wexler 2002 for the case of Russian children).”