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On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance
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This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which children are adult-like, and other domains where there is delay. It is a challenge for current theoretical proposals to encompass such differences. Part II focuses on the TP-field, including clitics and negation. Part III deals with the CP-field, covering topics such as backward anaphora, subjects and the left periphery, and recursiveness. The volume includes studies carried out on a variety of populations: typically developing children, bilinguals, children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Specific Language Impairment, and heritage speakers, with a view to arriving at a general theory of language acquisition.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 62] 2018. vi, 287 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 29 November 2018
Published online on 29 November 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionAnna Gavarró | pp. 1–4
- Part I. The acquisition of subjects: Passives, experiencers and other constructions
- French experiencer verbs and the Universal Freezing HypothesisJason Borga and William Snyder | pp. 7–30
- Discrimination of passive predicates by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking childrenJoão Claudio de Lima Júnior, Marina Rosa Ana Augusto and Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa | pp. 31–56
- The acquisition of Spanish passives: The Comparison Between Subject Experiencer Versus Actional Verbs and Direct Aspectual Semantic Evidence for the Adjectival InterpretationJesús Oliva and Ken Wexler | pp. 57–90
- Favorable processing conditions in the production of passive sentences by Brazilian Portuguese-speaking childrenJoão Claudio de Lima Júnior, Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa and Marina Rosa Ana Augusto | pp. 91–116
- Part II. The TP field: Clitics and Negation
- Clitic omission in bilingual Portuguese-Spanish acquisitionMarina Cestari Nardelli and Maria Lobo | pp. 119–146
- Syntactic awareness of clitic pronouns and articles in French-speaking children with autism, specific language impairment and developmental dyslexiaMaria Teresa Guasti, Hélène Delage and Stephanie Durrleman | pp. 147–168
- The comprehension of Italian negation in Mandarin-Italian sequential bilingual childrenShenai Hu, Maria Vender, Gaetano Fiorin and Denis Delfitto | pp. 169–184
- Part III. The CP field and recursion
- Subject position in Spanish as a heritage language in the Netherlands: External and internal interface factors:Brechje van Osch and Petra Sleeman | pp. 187–214
- Acquisition of backward anaphora in European Portuguese by Chinese learnersYi Zheng | pp. 215–234
- Sentence repetition and language impairment in French-speaking children with ASDSilvia Silleresi, Laurie Tuller, Hélène Delage, Stephanie Durrleman, Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, Joëlle Malvy and Philippe Prévost | pp. 235–258
- On the comprehension of recursive nominal modifiers in child RomanianAnca Sevcenco and Larisa Avram | pp. 259–278
- Author Index | pp. 279–284
- Subject Index | pp. 285–286
- Languages | p. 287
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