著者

Takeuchi Akihiro

出版者

国際大学

雑誌

Working papers

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.52-86, 2010

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This is a case study of English morphology acquisition by two immigrants children mainly cross-sectional with element of longitudinal study. The subjects are one year and a half apart in their age but started to be exposed to English speaking environment at the same time. Burko "wug" test was utilized to detect the condition of the acquisition of morphological aspects of English and it turned out that the elder subject performed better in morphology acquisition and the younger subject in pronunciation. The result will discussed from the view point of both age and personality attributes.