Early Child L2 Acquisition: Age or Input Effects? Neither, or Both?

Autor/in	Unsworth, Sharon
Titel	Early Child L2 Acquisition: Age or Input Effects? Neither, or Both?
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 43 (2016) 3, S.608-634 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500091500080X
Schlagwörter	Child Language; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Input Output Analysis; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Vocabulary; Semantics; English; Indo European Languages; Young Children; Verbs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Morphology; Morphologie; Wortschatz; Semantik; English language; Englisch; Indoeuropäisch; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	This paper explores whether there is evidence for age and/or input effects in child L2 acquisition across three different linguistic domains, namely morphosyntax, vocabulary, and syntax-semantics. More specifically, it compares data from English-speaking children whose age of onset to L2 Dutch was between one and three years with data from children whose age of onset was between four and seven years in their acquisition of verb morphology, verb placement, vocabulary, and direct object scrambling. The main findings were that there were no significant differences between the two groups in any of these areas and, with the exception of scrambling, current amount of exposure was the only factor significantly related to children's scores. The paper discusses the theoretical significance of these findings with respect to the role of input in the language acquisition process and the claim that there is a critical period ending within (early) childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01