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ERIC Number: EJ745669
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Mar
Pages: 22
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The Expression of Number and Person through Verb Morphology in Advanced French Interlanguage
Howard, Martin
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), v44 n1 p1-22 Mar 2006
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the variation underlying subject-verb agreement in the spoken French interlanguage of Irish classroom and study abroad learners. Results outline the range of factors constraining that variation, such as the learners' level of informal contact with the language, as well as linguistic factors such as temporal context, verb frequency, and functional constraints. Since the variation observed is specifically restricted to irregular verbs in third person plural contexts, the findings are discussed with reference to the acquisition of (ir)regular verb morphology.
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Language: English
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