Have you got a ticket yet?
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AnonymousDid you get a ticket yet?That’s common, but the perfect is preferable with yet, in my opinion.
AnonymousHave you gotten a ticket yet?Correct in AmE.
Rover_KEBrE speakers do not use 'gotten'.Hmm. This is a real puzzle. I would have said the same, but somewhere on this forum there's a post that claims otherwise. They said that BrE speakers use "gotten", but not the way that AmE speakers do, but I don't recall that details were ever given, so I never did quite understand the difference in usage. Right or
Anonymous BrE speakers wouldn't say 'he has gotten a ticket', but we would say 'it has gotten colder' or 'he has gotten so argumentative lately'. so we use 'gotten' to mean 'become' but not in place of 'has got'I have never heard a BrE speaker use 'gotten'.