First Language Acquisition in Spanish - A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement

This book provides new insights into the acquisition of functional categories in child language. Operating within the Minimalist Framework (Chomsky 1995) it examines in particular the availability of Determiner Phrases in the grammar of young children acquiring Spanish as a first language.The analysis reveals an interaction in child grammar around the production of bare nominals, proto-determiners and full determiner phrases. Socarras performs both qualitative and quantitative analyses to point to a link between the development stages children go through, and the occurrence of these elements in their speech.The work goes on to address the language acquisition debate between the continuity and discontinuity hypotheses, aligning the findings with a conclusion on how best to organise the theory.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gilda Socarras, Socarras Gilda
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.11.2012
• EAN: 9781441133656
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-3365-6
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Corsi per adulti / università popolare > Materiali per università popolare / materiali per corsi di lingua; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Spanish, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology