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April 15, 2026Linguistic Approaches to BilingualismOpen Access

Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children

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XDXiangjun DengZMZiyin MaiVYVirginia Yip

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Overview

Investigates past-tense inflection in bilingual children, revealing implications for language acquisition.

Key Points

  • The research aims to understand how Chinese–English bilingual children realize past tense in English amidst cross-linguistic influence.
  • Analyzed 11,682 utterances from 4 Chinese–English bilingual children in the US.
  • Focused on instances of past-tense marking in naturalistic speech.
  • Identified patterns of inflection, including omissions and overmarking.
  • Children displayed optional past-tense inflection across different ages.
  • Overregularization and a new pattern of overmarking were identified.
  • Findings suggest difficulties arise from the lack of tense marking in Chinese.

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Deng et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69df2c2fe4eeef8a2a6b1390https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.25003.den
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