This article reports the results of the first longitudinal study that systematically investigates the acquisition of verb agreement by hearing learners of a sign language. During a 2‐year period, 14 novel learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) with a spoken language background performed an elicitation task 15 times. Seven deaf native signers and NGT teachers performed the same task to serve as a benchmark group. The results obtained show that for some learners, the verb agreement system of NGT was difficult to master, despite numerous examples in the input. As compared to the benchmark group, learners tended to omit agreement markers on verbs that could be modified, did not always correctly use established locations associated with discourse referents, and made characteristic errors with respect to properties that are important in the expression of agreement (movement and orientation). The outcomes of the study are of value to practitioners in the field, as they are informative with regard to the nature of the learning process during the first stages of learning a sign language.

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太空奇数：荷兰手语的L2学习者对协议动词的获取

本文报告了第一个纵向研究的结果，该研究系统地调查了手语学习者对动词一致的习得。在2年的时间里，有14名具有口语背景的荷兰手语（NGT）的新颖学习者完成了15次启发任务。七个聋哑的本地签名者和NGT老师执行了相同的任务，成为基准小组。获得的结果表明，尽管输入了很多示例，但对于某些学习者来说，NGT的动词一致系统很难掌握。与基准组相比，学习者倾向于省略可修饰的动词上的一致性标记，并不总是正确地使用与话语参照物相关的既定位置，并针对在表达一致性（运动和方向）方面很重要的属性做出了特征性错误。该研究的结果对于该领域的从业者具有价值，因为它们对于学习手语的第一阶段的学习过程的性质具有指导意义。