First Language Acquisition in Spanish: A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement by Socarras, Gilda

First Language Acquisition in Spanish: A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781441134080)

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First Language Acquisition in Spanish: A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement by Socarras, Gilda

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

$230.00
First Language Acquisition in Spanish: A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement by Socarras, Gilda

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

$230.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Gilda Socarras
ISBN-10: 1441134085
ISBN-13: 9781441134080
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2011
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d
By Gilda Socarras
By Gilda Socarras
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Gilda M. Socarrás is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Auburn University, USA.

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