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Syntactic Acquisition in Bilingual Children: Autonomous or Interdependent?

Paradis, Johanne, Genesee, Fred·1996·Studies in Second Language Acquisition
DOI 10.1017/s0272263100014662
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Recent research on pragmatic and syntactic development in bilingual 2-year-olds has shown that these children have differentiated language systems. However, it remains to be shown whether their grammars develop autonomously or interdependently from 2 years onward. The present study investigates the potential interference between the grammars of French-English bilingual children, aged 2–3 years. We examined their acquisition of functional categories, specifically the properties of INFL (finiteness and agreement) and negation, as these grammatical properties differ in both adult French and English and child French and English. Our results indicate that the bilingual children show no evidence of transfer, acceleration, or delay in acquisition, and support the hypothesis that their grammars are acquired autonomously. Some implications of these findings for the debate on continuity in the emergence of functional categories are discussed.

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Authors
Paradis, J., & Genesee, F.
Venue
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1996-03
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
1-25
ISSN
  • 0272-2631 (ISSN-L)
  • 1470-1545
DOI
10.1017/s0272263100014662
OpenAlex
W1984163249
Cited by
722
References
0
FWCI
7.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4634 d)

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