Testing the Representational Deficit Hypothesis: From the Aspect of Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of Affixation ‘-s’ for Third Person Singular Verbs and Plural Nouns

The persistent difficulty in making verbal inflections is commonly recognized for second language learners, especially for Chinese-speaking students. Researchers put forward different hypotheses to explain the problems in acquiring inflectional morphology. Among them, the representational deficit hy...

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Main Authors: Ni Li, Lianrui Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.930504/full