First Language Acquisition in Spanish

A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement

Gilda Socarras author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Nov '12

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Provides new insight on the acquisition of functional categories within the Minimalist Framework.

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. Socarrás 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.

ISBN: 9781441133656

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 345g

240 pages