Blanca Flores

List of John Benjamins publications in which Blanca Flores is involved.

Articles

Grinstead, John, Dan McCurley, Teresa Pratt, Patrick Obregon and Blanca Flores 2013 The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article

Children with SLI manifest difficulties with tense, however it is not clear whether it is limited to morphosyntax or extends to semantics. Typically-developing children show a bias towards using the telicity of predicates to guide their use of grammatical aspect and tense – possibly for information… read more

Grinstead, John, Juliana De la Mora Gutiérrez, Amy Pratt and Blanca Flores 2009 Temporal interface delay and root nonfinite verbs in Spanish-Speaking children with specific language impairment: Evidence from the grammaticality choice task Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 239–264 | Article

Existing research into specific language impairment in Spanish utilizes primarily spontaneous production data and concludes that children do not have problems with verb finiteness. In contrast, we show, through a new receptive measure, the “Grammaticality Choice Task”, that the distribution of the… read more