This paper investigated how production task combined with teacher feedback (in the form of recasts) affects child second language development, and effects complexity on their performance. 92 learners English in three intact classes were assigned to tasks different (simple, +complex, ++complex). In response errors use present third person singular verb forms, participants received recasts. L2 de...

We present an experiment, in which the Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE, Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002) was reversed when the perspective was changed by using first person pronouns as the agent or patient of the sentence. The results suggest that participants prefer to take the perspective of the first person protagonists – independent of their grammatical and semantic roles and the directi...

Previous research shows that two-year-olds’ third person singular -s and plural -s are produced more accurately in utterance-final compared to utterance-medial position. However, only the third person singular is affected by coda complexity. This study explores these effects with possessive -s. Acoustic analysis of twelve two-year-olds’ elicited imitations examined the use of simple versus comp...

This essay outlines the problems associated with the history and current absence of a genderneutral third-person singular personal pronoun in the English language. The combination of the social and grammatical consequences of this language gap results in pronoun choices that are either politically incorrect or verbose. Experts’ attempts to fill this language gap have failed to take root on any ...

HARPER AND LEHISTE have discussed the order of subjects and predicates in Russian scientific text. Lehiste concludes that "form and function" should be used to distinguish the subject from the predicate of a Russian sentence; although her conclusion may be accepted (subject to assumptions about the value of maintaining customary English order in the output), her dictum must be converted into pr...

Cross-linguistically, monolingual children produce target-like inflected verbs much earlier than they can reliably distinguish between singular and plural subject-verb agreement morphology in comprehension (i.e. Johnson, V., J. de Villiers, H. Seymour. 2005. “Agreement Without Understanding? The Case of Third Person Singular /s/.” First Language 25: 317-333; Pérez-Leroux, A. T. “Number Problems...