This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 2Grammar
- 1Comparative analysis
- 1English as a second language
- 1L-view
- 1Language acquisition
- 1Language impairments
-
The acquisition of tense in English: Distinguishing child second language from first language and specific language impairment
Download2008
Crago, M., Marquis, J., Rice, M.L., Paradis, J.
This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2), and specific language impairment (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain whether the L2 children’s tense acquisition patterns were...
-
1980
One way of 'restricting linguistic theory' is the L-view: place sufficient restrictions on the allowable rules of grammars so as to reduce their generative power. Another way is the G-view: disallow certain grammars, regardless of whether this results in a reduction of generative capacity. The...