Acquisition of romance languages : old acquisition challenges and new explanations from a generative perspective / edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau, Pilar Larrañaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guijarro Fuentes, Pedro, editor.

Larrañaga, María Pilar, editor.

Juan-Garau, Maria, editor.

Series:

Studies on language acquisition ; Volume 52.

Studies on Language Acquisition, 1861-4248 ; Volume 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Contributors

Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches

1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters

2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese

3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French

4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian

5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children

6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability

7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study

8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch L1 learners

9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2016).

ISBN:

9781501500381

1501500384

9781614513575

1614513570

OCLC:

955134208