Past tense in L2 acquisition

[Annick.DeHouwer]

Dear Jean-Pierre,

Suzanne Schlyter at Lund University has done some work on aspect/tense
acquisition in Swedish-French bilingual children. Perhaps that could be a
start.

see:
Schlyter, Suzanne, 1990. 'The acquisition of tense and aspect'. In: Meisel,
ed., 1990, pp. 87-122. (Meisel, Jürgen, ed., 1990. Two First Languages -
Early Grammatical Development in Bilingual Children, Dordrecht: Foris
publications.)
Schlyter, Suzanne, 1995. Formes verbales du passé dans des interactions en
langue forte et en langue faible. AILE (Acquisition et Interaction en
Langue Etrangère) 6: 129-152.

Best regards,

Annick De Houwer


At 11:46 7/1/02 +0100, Jean Pierre Chevrot wrote:
>Dear all
>One of my students is interested in the learning of the past tense in
>English as second language (by French learners). One of her goals is to
>consider the effect of the school learning of the rule on the patterns of
>regularization. She has tried to get some references
>but she only managed to obtain the papers related to the acquisition of the
>past tense in English as first language.
>Please, do you know some references about the learning of past tense *in
>second language acquisition* ?
>Thanks for your help.
>Jean-Pierre Chevrot
>
>Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, BP 25, 38 240 Grenoble 
>Cedex, France.

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Annick De Houwer, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences PSW
University of Antwerp UIA
Universiteitsplein 1
B2610-Antwerpen
Belgium

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