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The absence of morphologically marked tense in sentences such as Last year we visit my friend or Yesterday he is sick is among the most prominent characteristics of second-language acquisition (SLA) studies in English. Its status as an interlanguage structure is secure (Burt & Kiparsky, 1972; Dulay & Burt, 1974; Krashen, 1982), and its pedagogical and descriptive significance is unchallenged (Riddle, 1986). Regardless of source language background, it is a feature to be expected in SLA in English.
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Wolfram, W. (1989). Systematic Variability in Second-Language Tense Marking. In: Eisenstein, M.R. (eds) The Dynamic Interlanguage. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0900-8_12
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