The acquisition of articles in child second language English: fluctuation, transfer or both?

By Tatiana Zdorenko, J. Paradis. 2008

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Macrostructure, microstructure, and mental state terms in the narratives of English–Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without specific language impairment (2015, methodology): “This measure was preferred to dividing errors by total possible instances (Paradis, 2005; Zdorenko & Paradis, 2008), because it could be applied to a wide variety of errors in which obligatory context is not transparent.”
Effects of input properties, vocabulary size, and L1 on the development of third person singular –s in child L2 English (2012, unknown): “The children in this study participated in previous studies, including Paradis (2005), Paradis et al. (2008), Golberg, Paradis, and Crago (2008), and Zdorenko and Paradis (2008).”
Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners* (2009, background): “Overuse of the in the presence of a visual referent was found among children as old as seven or eight – both L2-learners (Zdorenko and Paradis, 2008) and native speakers (Warden, 1976).”
Individual differences in child English second language acquisition Comparing child-internal and child-external factors (2011, background): “This result is in line with other research showing L1 transfer effects to be operative in child L2 acquisition (Blom et al., 2010, under review; Chondrogianni, 2008; Unsworth, 2005; Zdorenko, 2010; Zdorenko & Paradis, 2008, 2011).”