Acquisition of Romance Languages

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

Acquisition of Romance Languages

Old Acquisition Challenges and New Explanations from a Generative Perspective

Edited by: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes , Maria Juan-Garau and Pilar Larrañaga

Volume 52 in the series Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513575

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About this book

This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’, and bilinguals’ acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures.

Author information

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Plymouth University; Maria Juan-Garau, Universitat Illes Balears; Pilar Larrañaga,, Universität Hamburg

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau and Pilar Larrañaga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters Heather Goad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese Harald Clahsen and João Veríssimo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French Bernadette Plunkett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian Larisa Avram, Cristina Ciovârnache and Anca Sevcenco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children Giorgia del Puppo, Margherita Pivi and Anna Cardinaletti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability Aoife Ahern, José Amenós-Pons and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study Tim Diaubalick and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch L1 learners Pedro Guijarro Fuentes, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Rocio Pérez-Tattam and Myrthe Wildeboer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia Margherita Pivi, Giorgia del Puppo and Anna Cardinaletti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Researchers, and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Language Acquisition.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 265
Keywords: Language Acquisition; Romance Languages

eBook

Published: September 12, 2016
ISBN: 9781614513575

Hardcover

Published: September 12, 2016
ISBN: 9781614518020