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1 online resource (xii, 421 pages) : illustrations |
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Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 41 |
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Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 41. 0925-0123
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| Contents |
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages; I. Clitics, determiners and pronouns; The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children; On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes; Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan; Null arguments in monolingual children; Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition; II. Verbs, auxiliaries and inflection |
| Summary |
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturation of general principles universal to all languages. They all depart from the view that language acquisition can be explained in terms of learning language specific rules, constraints or structures. The different parts into which this volume is organi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Romance languages -- Syntax
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Language acquisition
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Romance languages -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Torrens, Vincent.
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Escobar, Linda.
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| LC no. |
2006047727 |
| ISBN |
9789027293497 |
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902729349X |
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