Processing of Regular and Irregular Past‐Tense Verb Forms in First and Second Language Reading Acquisition

We investigated written word identification of regular and irregular past‐tense verb forms by first (L1) and second language (L2) learners of Dutch in third and sixth grade. Using a lexical decision task, we measured speed and accuracy in the identification of regular and irregular past‐tense verb forms by children from Turkish‐speaking homes (L2 learners) and monolingual Dutch‐speaking homes (L1 learners). All beginning readers of Dutch had...