Screen LibraryMinimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition : case studies across Portuguese /
The volume is a collection of original articles that present new research on first and second language acquisition from the perspective of current generative linguistics, using a detailed case study of Portuguese as a first, second and third language. The book focuses on studies exploring both empir...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies on language acquisition [sola] ;
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| Summary: |
The volume is a collection of original articles that present new research on first and second language acquisition from the perspective of current generative linguistics, using a detailed case study of Portuguese as a first, second and third language. The book focuses on studies exploring both empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition of syntax and its interfaces with morphology, with semantics/pragmatics, and language change. The volume includes chapters on the child and adult acquisition of European and Brazilian Portuguese, and several chapters that also compare and contrast the two varieties from these different perspectives. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (362pages): Figs. and tabs. |
| ISBN: | 9783110215359 |
| Index Number: | P118 |
| CLC: | H09 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Child and adult language acquisition, linguistic theory and (microparametric) variation -- Part 1 First Language Acquisition -- Bootstrapping language acquisition from a minimalist standpoint: On the identification of -features in Brazilian Portuguese -- Clitic omission in the acquisition of European Portuguese: Data from comprehension -- Speculations about the acquisition of wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese -- Aspect and the acquisition of null objects in Brazilian Portuguese -- Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese in late childhood: Implications for syntactic theory and language change -- Early VP ellipsis: Production and comprehension evidence -- Part 2 Adult and Second Language Acquisition -- Informing adult acquisition debates: N-Drop at the initial state of L3 Brazilian Portuguese -- Divergence at the syntax-discourse interface: Evidence from the L2 acquisition of contrastive focus in European Portuguese -- Competing SLA hypotheses assessed: Comparing heritage and successive Spanish bilinguals of L3 Brazilian Portuguese -- Brazilian Portuguese and the recovery of lost clitics through schooling -- The acquisition of clitic pronouns in L2 European Portuguese -- Subject expression in the non-native acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese -- Afterword -- Backmatter |