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