Morphlogy in L2A

[Michel DeGraff]

RE message from a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk on Mon, 19 Jul 1999:

> It is frequently reported that L-2 adult learners have serious difficulties
> with grammatical gender agreement.  Is this just an anecdote or are there
> data in the literature to which I can refer?  Many thanks in anticipation,
> Annette K-S

Dear all,

I have a related request.  I'd be very much interested in recent and
not-so-recent references on inflectional and derivational morphology in
(untutored) in L2A (and/vs. L1A).  I am particularly interested in the
acquisition paths of derivational morphemes.  E.g., do children and adults
follow similar paths in acquiring the morphophonology and semantics of
derivational affixes in the `target' language.

Thanks in advance,

                              -michel.
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