The roles of L1 transfer, L2 exposure, and morphological salience in bilingual children's L2 English morphological development

The study suggests that L1 transfer plays a critical role in L2 English morpheme production accuracy and underscores the importance of L2 input quantity and quality, such as lexical diversity, in explaining variability in bilingual children's morpheme acquisition. Additionally, difficulties in producing English morphemes may be associated with factors related to morphological salience. Overall, the findings underlie the importance of L1 transfer, L2 exposure, morphological salience in bilingual children's L2 morpheme acquisition.