Generalizing over various observations on the language development of children acquiring a second language (child L2 acquisition), Schwartz (2003: 47) concludes that “in the domain of inflectional morphology, child L2 acquisition is more like child L1 acquisition, and in the domain of syntax, child L2 acquisition is more like adult L2 acquisition”. One implication of this generalization is that inflection is influenced by age of onset, whereas knowledge of syntax is not. In this contribution, results from a series of production experiments on child and adult L2 Dutch are discussed showing that children and adults have different profiles in both linguistic domains, contrary to Schwartz (2003).
2019. Syntax–pragmatic and morphology–pragmatic interfaces in sequential bilingual language acquisition: The case of Russia-Turkish and English-Turkish bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 23:5 ► pp. 1137 ff.
Ballester, Elizabet Pladevall
2012. Child L2 English acquisition of subject properties in an immersion bilingual context. Second Language Research 28:2 ► pp. 217 ff.
Barreña, Andoni & Margareta Almgren
2013. Object–verb and verb–object in Basque and Spanish monolinguals and bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism 17:3 ► pp. 337 ff.
Blom, Elma
2010. Effects of input on the early grammatical development of bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 14:4 ► pp. 422 ff.
2020. Chinese Multidialectal Child Learners’ Acquisition of English at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In Universal Grammar and the Initial State of Second Language Learning [SpringerBriefs in Education, ], ► pp. 49 ff.
2013. Developmental Comparisons in Language Acquisition. Language Acquisition 20:2 ► pp. 69 ff.
Kim, Kitaek & Kum-Jeong Joo
2021. L1 transfer in the interpretation of L2 reflexive pronouns by child learners of Korean. International Journal of Bilingualism 25:6 ► pp. 1529 ff.
LICHTMAN, KAREN
2016. Age and learning environment: Are children implicit second language learners?. Journal of Child Language 43:3 ► pp. 707 ff.
2013. Basque L2 development in immersion school settings. International Journal of Bilingualism 17:3 ► pp. 375 ff.
PARADIS, JOHANNE
2010. Response to Commentaries on the interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 31:2 ► pp. 345 ff.
PLADEVALL BALLESTER, ELISABET
2010. Child L2 development of syntactic and discourse properties of Spanish subjects. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13:2 ► pp. 185 ff.
Prévost, Philippe, Nelleke Strik & Laurie Tuller
2014. Wh-questions in child L2 French: Derivational complexity and its interactions with L1 properties, length of exposure, age of exposure, and the input. Second Language Research 30:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
UNSWORTH, SHARON
2016. Early child L2 acquisition: Age or input effects? Neither, or both?. Journal of Child Language 43:3 ► pp. 608 ff.
Verhagen, Josje, Paul Leseman & Marielle Messer
2015. Phonological Memory and the Acquisition of Grammar in Child L2 Learners. Language Learning 65:2 ► pp. 417 ff.
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