New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages : Selected Proceedings of The Romance Turn V / edited by João Costa, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria João Freitas, Maria Lobo and Ana Lúcia Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Costa, João, 1972- editor. .

Fiéis, Alexandra, editor. .

Freitas, Maria João, editor. .

Lobo, Maria, |d 1968- editor. .

Santos, Ana Lúcia, editor. .

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Romance languages--Acquisition--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Language and culture--Congresses.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This book puts together a selection of papers presented at The Romance Turn V Workshop, held in Lisbon in 2012. The papers presented at the workshop discussed general problems in the field of Language Acquisition, with a special focus on data from several Romance varieties. The papers in the volume cover a wide array of topics and subfields of acquisition studies, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, acquisition of syntax, semantics, and phonology.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; PLENARY PRESENTATIONS; INTERFACE INFORMATIONAND COMPUTATIONAL COST; THE EMERGENCE OF FIRST LANGUAGEPHONOLOGY; MAIN SESSION PRESENTATIONS; THE ACQUISITION OF WORD-FINALCONSONANTS IN A BILINGUAL LEARNEROF FRENCH AND EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE; TO MOVE OR NOT TO MOVE?MOVEMENT, INTERVENTIONAND OPTIONALITY IN THE ACQUISITIONOF A'-DEPENDENCIES IN FRENCH; ON THE L2 SPANISH ACQUISITION OF [+/-]INTERPRETABLE FEATURES; DISCURSIVE FEATURE SPECIFICATIONOF THE PRONOUN HURA IN CHILD (L1, L2)AND ADULT BASQUE

THE RELEVANCE OF ASPECTUALAND SEMANTIC FEATURESFOR THE COMPREHENSION OF SHORTPASSIVE SENTENCES INVOLVINGAGENTIVE AND NON-AGENTIVE VERBSVP-ELLIPSIS COMPREHENSION IN EUROPEANAND BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE; ASYMMETRIC ENTAILMENTAND THE INTERPRETATION OF POTEREIN EARLY ITALIAN; DIFFERENTIAL PROCESSING COSTIN THE COMPREHENSION OF OBJECTRELATIVE CLAUSES AND WH-QUESTIONSBY PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING LANGUAGEIMPAIRED CHILDREN; EXECUTIVE CONTROL IN CHILDREN'SCOMPREHENSION OF ORDINAL MODIFIERPHRASES; L2 CHILDREN EMBED NORMALLY,BUT CHILDREN WITH SLI DO NOT; RELATIVE CLAUSES

INTERPRETATION OF CLITIC, STRONGAND NULL PRONOUNS BY TYPICALLYDEVELOPING PORTUGUESE CHILDRENON THE ACQUISITION OF ROMANIANPSEUDOPARTITIVES; ENGLISH COMPOUNDS IN CHILD ITALIAN; THE ACQUISITION OF PASSIVES IN ITALIAN

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ISBN:

9781443870276

1443870277

OCLC:

893740836