Acquisition of irregular verb forms in L2 French : does the L1 of the learners explain the difference ? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This study explores L1 effects on the production of subject-verb agreement in number (singular vs. plural) in L2 French. L1 influence has rarely been explored in detail in this context, especially compared to other factors such as input frequency of specific verb forms, singular vs plural entities and different types of verbs. In this study, we analyse the use of verbs with an audible distinction between singular and plural in a corpus of 45 ...