The acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax : the L1/L2 connection / edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Juana Muñoz Liceras.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pérez Leroux, Ana T. (Ana Teresa), 1962-

Liceras, Juana M.

Series:

Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 31.

Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Morphosyntax.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]

Summary:

Recent developments in linguistic theory, as well as the growing body of evidence from languages other than English, provide new opportunities for deeper explorations into how language is represented in the mind of learners. This collection of new empirical studies on the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax by leading researchers in the field of language acquisition, specifically contributes to the characterization of the L1 / L2 connection in acquisition. Using L1 and L2 Spanish data from children and adults, the authors seek to address the central questions that have occupied developmental psycholinguists in the final decades of the previous century and that will no doubt continue engaging them into the present one.

Contents:

Introduction: The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax / Ana T. Perez-Leroux, Juana M. Liceras ix

Early Verbs and the Acquisition of the Tense Feature in Spanish and Catalan / Aurora Bel 1

Root Infinitives in Two Pro-Drop Languages / Maria Jose Ezeizabarrena 35

Aspects of the Null Object Phenomenon in Child Spanish / Hanako Fujino, Tetsuya Sano 67

Spell-out Conditions for Interpretable Features in L1 and L2/Bilingual Spanish / Liliana Sanchez 89

The L2 Acquisition of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Properties of the Aspectual Tenses Preterite and Imperfect / Silvina Montrul, Roumyana Slabakova 115

The L2 Acquisition of Spanish DPs: the Status of Grammatical Features / Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Lydia White 153

Inalienable Possession in Spanish: L2-Acquisition at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface / Ana T. Perez-Leroux, Erin O'Rourke 179

The Compounding Parameter and the Word Marker Hypothesis: Accounting for the Acquisition of Spanish N-N Compounding / Juana M. Liceras, Lourdes Diaz, Terhi Salomaa-Robertson 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1402009747

1402009755

OCLC:

50718344