Hispanic child languages : typical and impaired development / edited by John Grinstead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grinstead, John.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 50.

Language acquisition and language disorders, ISSN 0925-0123 ; v. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Spanish language--Acquisition.

Spanish language.

Children--Language.

Children.

Specific language impairment in children.

Bilingualism in children.

Language disorders in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter investigates whether a specific grammatical marker can be used to identify specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual Spanish-speaking (SS) children that is consistent with a linguistic knowledge deficit account of SLI. A number of grammatical markers that have been identified as vulnerable to error in Spanish-English bilingual children with SLI (articles, clitics, subjunctive verbs, & derivational morphemes) were tested in monolingual SS children with and without SLI. Results indicated significant group differences between monolingual SS children with and without SLI in all grammatical areas tested. However, children with SLI demonstrated considerable variability across grammatical markers such that one particular grammatical marker could not be identified as impaired in all children with SLI. Theoretical and clinical implications of the study are discussed.

Contents:

Introduction / John Grinstead

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 Alejandra Márquez

Development in early Basque-Spanish language mixing / María José Ezeizabarrena

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 T. Pérez-Leroux and Tanya Battersby

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 & Yolanda Cabré-Sans

Hispanic child languages. Person and number asymmetries in child Catalan and Spanish / Aurora Bel and Elisa Rosado

The development of inflectional morphology

Relationships between linguistic and behavioral measures during development / Miguel Pérez-Pereira & 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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612395482

9781282395480

1282395483

9789027290588

902729058X

OCLC:

712986282