Hispanic Child Languages
Typical and impaired development
1st Edition
Published on 22. October 2009
XIX, 304 pages
978-90-272-9058-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are learning language in diverse learning conditions, including language contact, as well as monolingual and bilingual Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Euskera. This expansion and diversification of the database for studying language development is important because it creates new opportunities for testing theoretical claims. Our contributors reconsider theoretical claims relating to the purported adult-like nature of young children's grammars. While some conclude, for example, that children in Mexico possess very adult-like semantic-pragmatic competence in the domain of the pragmatic implicatures associated with existential quantifiers, others conclude that, in particular sociolinguistic registers of Chilean Spanish, children are late to develop adult-like competence in plural marking. Taken together, the contents of the volume illustrate how the linguistic diversity found in the distinct learning conditions in which language develops offers a wealth of opportunities to further our understanding of linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive development.
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List of contributors
Introduction
John Grinstead
Part I. Diverse learning conditions and input characteristics
Syllable-final /s/ lenition and the acquisition of plural morphology in Spanish-speaking children
Karen Miller and Cristina Schmitt
The article paradigm in Spanish-speaking children with SLI in language contact situations
Raquel T. Anderson and Alejandra Márquez
Development in early Basque-Spanish language mixing
Maria-José Ezeizabarrena
Part II. The developing syntax and semantics of determiner phrases
Context and the Scalar Implicatures of Indefinites in Child Spanish
Marissa Vargas-Tokuda, John Grinstead and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Early determination
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Tanya Battersby
Part III. The developing syntax of the verb phrase
Before grammar: Cut and paste in early complex sentences
Cecilia Rojas-Nieto
Subjects, verb classes and word order in child Catalan
Anna Gavarró and Yolanda Cabré-Sans
Person and number asymmetries in child Catalan and Spanish
Aurora Bel and Elisa Rosado
Part IV. The development of inflectional morphology
Relationships between linguistic and behavioral measures during development
Miguel Pérez-Pereira and Mariela Resches
Temporal interface delay and root nonfinite verbs in Spanish-Speaking children with specific language impairment: Evidence from the grammaticality choice task
John Grinstead, Juliana De la Mora, Amy Pratt and Blanca Flores
Specific language impairment in Spanish & Catalan
Vicenç Torrens and Linda Escobar
Variability in the grammatical profiles of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment
Gareth Morgan, M. Adelaida Restrepo and Alejandra Auza
Index
Introduction
John Grinstead
Part I. Diverse learning conditions and input characteristics
Syllable-final /s/ lenition and the acquisition of plural morphology in Spanish-speaking children
Karen Miller and Cristina Schmitt
The article paradigm in Spanish-speaking children with SLI in language contact situations
Raquel T. Anderson and Alejandra Márquez
Development in early Basque-Spanish language mixing
Maria-José Ezeizabarrena
Part II. The developing syntax and semantics of determiner phrases
Context and the Scalar Implicatures of Indefinites in Child Spanish
Marissa Vargas-Tokuda, John Grinstead and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Early determination
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Tanya Battersby
Part III. The developing syntax of the verb phrase
Before grammar: Cut and paste in early complex sentences
Cecilia Rojas-Nieto
Subjects, verb classes and word order in child Catalan
Anna Gavarró and Yolanda Cabré-Sans
Person and number asymmetries in child Catalan and Spanish
Aurora Bel and Elisa Rosado
Part IV. The development of inflectional morphology
Relationships between linguistic and behavioral measures during development
Miguel Pérez-Pereira and Mariela Resches
Temporal interface delay and root nonfinite verbs in Spanish-Speaking children with specific language impairment: Evidence from the grammaticality choice task
John Grinstead, Juliana De la Mora, Amy Pratt and Blanca Flores
Specific language impairment in Spanish & Catalan
Vicenç Torrens and Linda Escobar
Variability in the grammatical profiles of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment
Gareth Morgan, M. Adelaida Restrepo and Alejandra Auza
Index
