First Language Acquisition in Spanish : A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement
Socarras, Gilda
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 analysis 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 hypothesis, aligning the findings with a conclusion on how best to organise the theory.
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 analysis 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 hypothesis, aligning the findings with a conclusion on how best to organise the theory.
Год:
2011
Издательство:
Continuum International Publishing
Язык:
english
Страницы:
240
ISBN 10:
1441190309
ISBN 13:
9781441190307
Серия:
Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Файл:
PDF, 645 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2011