Acquisition of Romance Languages: Old Acquisition Challenges and New Explanations from a Generative Perspective

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Acquisition of Romance Languages

Old Acquisition Challenges and New Explanations from a Generative Perspective

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Volume 52 | Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

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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.

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Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Plymouth University; Maria Juan-Garau, Universitat Illes Balears; Pilar Larrañaga,, Universität Hamburg

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Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches
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Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau and Pilar Larrañaga

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1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters
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Heather Goad

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2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese
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Harald Clahsen and João Veríssimo

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3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French
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Bernadette Plunkett

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4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian
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Larisa Avram, Cristina Ciovârnache and Anca Sevcenco

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5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children
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Giorgia del Puppo, Margherita Pivi and Anna Cardinaletti

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6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability
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Aoife Ahern, José Amenós-Pons and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

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7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study
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Tim Diaubalick and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

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8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch L1 learners
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Pedro Guijarro Fuentes, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Rocio Pérez-Tattam and Myrthe Wildeboer

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9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia
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Margherita Pivi, Giorgia del Puppo and Anna Cardinaletti

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Index
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Language Acquisition; Romance Languages

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Research Libraries, Researchers, and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Language Acquisition.

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Acquisition of Romance Languages

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

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

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