The use of verb morphology of advanced L2 learners and native speakers of French Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Research on L2 acquisition has proposed a more or less fixed 'natural order' or route of acquisition of various language elements (cf. Dulay, Burt and Krashen 1982; Ellis 1995; Perdue 1993). These acquisitional routes (or 'developmental paths') have been organised in successive stages. Each stage can be seen as constituting a grammatical 'profile' of a learner at a given moment in his development (Clahsen 1984; Pienemann 1998). A shortcoming of ...