Subject-verb agreement in German in bilingual children with and without SLI

• Published in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 79 - 106
• Main Authors: Rothweiler, Monika, Schönenberger, Manuela, Sterner, Franziska
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter Mouton 27.06.2017; De Gruyter
• Subjects: child L2 acquisition (cL2); early age of onset; German; Specific Language Impairment (SLI); subject-verb agreement (SVA)

We investigated the acquisition of subject-verb agreement (SVA) in German based on spontaneous speech data from both typically developing (TD) and language-impaired (SLI) children learning German as a second language (L2), and from language-impaired monolingual children. Rothweiler et al. (2012) sug...