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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796577403321

Titolo

Acquisition of romance languages : old acquisition challenges and new explanations from a generative perspective / / edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau, Pilar Larrañaga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0038-4

1-61451-357-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Studies on Language Acquisition, , 1861-4248 ; ; Volume 52

Classificazione

IB 1103

Disciplina

440

Soggetti

Romance languages

Romance languages - Acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches -- 1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters -- 2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese -- 3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French -- 4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian -- 5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children -- 6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability -- 7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study -- 8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch L1 learners -- 9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’, and bilinguals’ acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures.