Hirata-Edds, T. (2011). Influence of second language cherokee immersion on children's development of past tense in their first language, English. Language Learning, 61, 700-733.
摘要:Metalinguistic skills may develop differently in multilingual and monolingual children. This study investigated effects of immersion in Cherokee as a second language on young children's (4;5-6;1) skills of noticing morphological forms/patterns in English, their first language, by comparing English past tense skills on two nonword and two real-word tasks between a Cherokee immersion group (N= 10) and an English-medium comparison group (N= 13). Only past finiteness (irregular forms plus overregularizations) on a real-word sentence imitation task was significantly different, with the Cherokee group performing better. The children learning Cherokee as a second language were progressing as well as their monolingual peers on English past tense marking and in one area had developed increased attention to productive morphological patterns.
关键词:applied linguistics, non-native language learning languages other than English, psycholinguistics, morphological processing, Keresiouan Languages, English, Children, Tense, Multilingualism, Morphological Processing