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EARLY VERBS IN BILINGUAL ACQUISITION<br />
Table 1a. Sonja, English and German complete and <strong>in</strong>telligible utterances by<br />
sessions<br />
Age English sessions German sessions<br />
English German a Mixed b German English a Mixed b<br />
1;11 75 9 3<br />
2;0 226 13 18<br />
2;1 177 5 16<br />
2;2 113 13 17 191 7 14<br />
2;3 150 8 6 207 7 12<br />
2;4 264 10 2<br />
2;5 274 0 5<br />
2;6 229 7 7 180 0 3<br />
2;7 247 4 20 196 0 2<br />
2;8 110 0 4<br />
Total 849 32 54 1790 51 75<br />
Table 1b. Maija, English and Latvian complete and <strong>in</strong>telligible utterances by<br />
sessions<br />
Age English sessions Latvian sessions<br />
English Latvian a Mixed b Latvian English a Mixed b<br />
1;3 132 11 1 123 6 0<br />
1;4 131 53 4 128 2 0<br />
1;5 96 40 5 199 13 3<br />
1;6 167 81 3 314 16 8<br />
1;7 150 19 5 201 4 2<br />
1;8 180 39 0 202 2 0<br />
1;9 153 52 7 207 5 2<br />
1;10 221 17 7 252 2 1<br />
1;11 251 3 3 205 0 4<br />
Total 1481 315 35 1831 50 20<br />
a non-target language utterances<br />
b utterances show<strong>in</strong>g lexical or syntactic mix<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Data were analysed <strong>in</strong> the Systematic Analysis <strong>of</strong> Language Transcripts<br />
programme (SALT: Miller & Chapman 1993). Table 2 shows types and tokens<br />
for all verb forms <strong>in</strong> SALT’s category <strong>of</strong> complete and <strong>in</strong>telligible utterances,<br />
across all samples. We report on this <strong>in</strong> detail elsewhere (Garman, Schelletter &<br />
S<strong>in</strong>ka 1999), and use it here just to give an overall impression <strong>of</strong> the distribution<br />
<strong>of</strong> verb forms <strong>in</strong> the 2 languages for each child.<br />
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