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Direct linkMaria del Pilar Garcia Mayo; Amparo Lazaro Ibarrola; Juana M. Liceras – Language Learning, 2005
In this article we provide an explanation for 2 syntactic phenomena whose systematic production has been observed in the English nonnative grammar of 3 different age groups of 58 bilingual (Basque/Spanish) children after 4 years of exposure to English in a formal setting: (a) insertion of "is" before a lexical verb and (b) insertion of a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grammar, Verbs, Spanish
