First Language Acquisition in Spanish
A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement
1st Edition
Published on 14. April 2011
240 pages
978-1-4411-7043-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides new insights into the acquisition of functional categories in child language. Operating within the Minimalist Framework (Chomsky 1995) it examines in particular the availability of Determiner Phrases in the grammar of young children acquiring Spanish as a first language.
The analysis reveals an interaction in child grammar around the production of bare nominals, proto-determiners and full determiner phrases. Socarrás performs both qualitative and quantitative analyses to point to a link between the development stages children go through, and the occurrence of these elements in their speech.
The work goes on to address the language acquisition debate between the continuity and discontinuity hypotheses, aligning the findings with a conclusion on how best to organise the theory.
The analysis reveals an interaction in child grammar around the production of bare nominals, proto-determiners and full determiner phrases. Socarrás performs both qualitative and quantitative analyses to point to a link between the development stages children go through, and the occurrence of these elements in their speech.
The work goes on to address the language acquisition debate between the continuity and discontinuity hypotheses, aligning the findings with a conclusion on how best to organise the theory.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7043-9 (9781441170439)
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Person
Gilda M. Socarrás is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Auburn University, USA.
Content
Preface \ 1. Theoretical Foundations \ 2. Experimental Methodology \ 3. Gender Agreement \ 4. Number Agreement \ 5. Emergence of DP \ 6. Conclusions \
Bibliography \ Index
Bibliography \ Index
