Cecilia Rojas-Nieto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cecilia Rojas-Nieto is involved.
2019 Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Early comp -que constructions in Spanish acquisition Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity, Álvarez González, Albert, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 53–83 | Chapter
A constructional grounding view to emerging complexity is based on the assumption that components of complex constructions may be used as free clauses before they are integrated into a complex frame. In child language development, constructional grounding has already been tested with positive… read more
2014 Verb sequences and early verb inflection in Spanish: Frequency, patterning and possible effects The role of input on early first language morphosyntactic development: Le rôle de l’input sur le développement morphosyntaxique précoce en langue maternelle, Kern, Sophie, Frédérique Gayraud and Florence Chenu (eds.), pp. 82–99 | Article
Usage-based studies of morphological development have provided robust evidence of the relevance of local root/inflection combinations for children’s detection of morphological patterns. This paper shows that dialogical continuity is supported by interlocutors’ use of the same lexical verb,… read more
2011 Developing first contrasts in Spanish verb inflection: Usage and interaction Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Article
This paper offers evidence of the strong parallelism between mother and child usage for exemplars of verb forms. Both mother and child usage reveal little inflectional productivity, a highly skewed distribution of inflection forms, and item-based frequency for specific inflectional forms. The… read more
2009 Before grammar: Cut and paste in early complex sentences Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 143–174 | Article
This paper presents early complex constructions with querer ‘want’ produced by a young Mexican Spanish-speaking child. It argues that constructions in the complement position, regardless their infinitive or subjunctive marking, result from simple cut and paste operations and do not involve any… read more
2009 ‘Starting small’ effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 277–310 | Article
This paper builds on previous Usage-based accounts of developing sentence complexity (Diessel 2004; Diessel & Tomasello 2000, 2001), considering early relative constructions (RC) in Spanish. RCs development shows various “starting small” processes (Elman 1993): Most CRs show no embedding; they are… read more