The acquisition of French object clitics by L2 children: The effects of onset

This study seeks to investigate how the differences in age of acquisition (AoA) for sequential learners affect the acquisition of French object clitics. To answer this question, 16 anglophone children were tested, who are second language (L2) French learners (8-11 years old, mean age 9-year-old). Participants are enrolled in immersion schools in the Greater Toronto Area (Peel, North York and Milton). Results for the elicited production task show that the production of object clitics is even lower in our group when compared to the sequential and simultaneous bilinguals in Strik et al. (2015).