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Author Sánchez, Liliana.

Title Quechua-Spanish bilingualism : interference and convergence in functional categories / Liliana Sánchez
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations
Series Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 35
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 35.
Contents Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The acquisition of functional categories in bilinguals; 2 The direct object system of Quechua and Spanish; 3 Bilinguals in a language contact situation; 4 A turtle is looking at a toad; 5 The frog is looking at Phi-features; 6 Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS
Summary This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence o
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index
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Subject Bilingualism in children -- Peru
Languages in contact -- Peru
Quechua language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Spanish
Spanish language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Quechua
Interference (Linguistics)
Language acquisition.
Language Development
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Bilingualism in children
Interference (Linguistics)
Language acquisition
Languages in contact
Quechua (taal)
Spaans.
Tweetaligheid.
Taalinterferentie.
Acquisition du langage.
Bilinguisme.
Enfant.
Langues en contact.
Interférence (Psychologie)
Espagnol (Langue)
Quechua (Langue)
Peru
Pérou.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027295965
9027295964
1588114716
9781588114716
9027252947
9789027252944