TY - JOUR
T1 - The expression of number and person through verb morphology in advanced French interlanguage
AU - Howard, Martin
PY - 2006/3/21
Y1 - 2006/3/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33646437483
U2 - 10.1515/IRAL.2006.001
DO - 10.1515/IRAL.2006.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646437483
SN - 0019-042X
VL - 44
SP - 1
EP - 22
JO - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
JF - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
IS - 1
ER -