The development of the copula in Child English: The lightness of be

By Misha Becker. 2002

72 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Walt Wolfram
2. Ora Matushansky
3. Bonnie D Schwartz
4. Janneke Van Hofwegen

In Language and Linguistics

1. Walt Wolfram
2. Ora Matushansky
3. Bonnie D Schwartz
4. Janneke Van Hofwegen
5. Ruth Kramer
6. Camelia Constantinescu

Citations in the corpus

• Why Child L2 Acquisition (2004, background): “In early stages L1 English, copula be is often missing, as Becker (2000a, 2000b) discusses at length.”
• Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study† (2010, background): “Hence, a DDM can be a useful tool for quantifying African American English vernacularity in a given speech context, but does not seek to address the underlying causes for what features are exhibited at a certain time.”
• On the Attributive Nature of Superlatives (2008, background): “24 Carlson (1977) observes that NP predicates are always individual-level, while Becker (2000) notes that copula omission in child English strongly distinguishes NPs and PPs (while APs are in between).”