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Peer reviewedParadis, Joanne; Le Corre, Mathieu; Genesee, Fred – Second Language Research, 1998
Examines the acquisition of tense and agreement by L2 learners of French. Interviews were conducted with English-speaking children acquiring French as a second language and with grade-matched native French-speaker controls. Results revealed that items encoding agreement emerged before items encoding tense, suggesting that the abstract grammatical…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Elementary School Students, French, French Canadians


