Abstract
The current study investigated trajectories of HL-Russian grammatical development in the domain of morpho-syntax by considering (a) monolingual-like development, (b) divergent attainment (previously referred to as incomplete acquisition), (c) attrition, and (d) a birth of a new language variety in a contact situation.
Adult and child HL-Russian speakers were compared to monolingual child and adult Russian speaking baseline controls. The adjective–noun elicitation task, which taps gender assignment/agreement in real words in Russian, was used. Overall, the results indicated that Russian-speaking children showed adult-like performance.
Publisher
Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
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