Información General

• Autores: Vicenç Torrens i García (coord.), Linda Escobar (coord.)
• Editores: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Año de publicación: 2006
• Colecciones: Language acquisition & language disorders, 41
• País: España
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9027253013
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Resumen

• This study investigates whether and how English-speaking L2 learners at various proficiency levels acquire the morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic properties of subject expression in Spanish. The crucial question is whether discourse-pragmatic properties are acquired together with syntactic features or later in the process of interlanguage development. According to the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis, transfer effects should be observed at earliest stages of development and full parameter resetting at later stages. An oral production task was administered to 15 intermediate, 15 advanced and 15 near-native learners and 20 native speakers. Results indicated that the near-native speakers performed like the native speakers with the morphosyntactic and the discourse-pragmatic properties of the Null Subject Parameter, while in intermediate and advanced learners the acquisition of these two properties were dissociated: the learners were accurate with morphosyntax and inaccurate with discourse-pragmatics.

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Listado de artículos

• • Part I. Clitics, determiners and pronouns

    • The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children

      Sergio Baauw, Marieke Kuipers, Esther Ruigendijk, Fernando Cuetos Vega

      págs. 3-21

      

    • On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes: Insights from the acquisition of French SE

      Isabelle Barrière, Marjorie Perlman Lorch

      págs. 23-49

      

    • Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan

      Anna Gavarró, Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Thomas Roeper

      págs. 51-68

      

    • Null arguments in monolingual children: a comparison of Italian and French

      Natascha Müller, Katrin Schmitz, Katja Cantone, Tanja Kupisch

      págs. 69-93

      

    • Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition: Evidence for cross-linguistic influence

      Maren Pannemann

      págs. 95-114

      

  • Part II. Verbs, auxiliaries and inflection

    • A cross-sectional study on the use of “be” in early Italian

      Claudia Caprin, Maria Teresa Guasti

      págs. 117-133

      

    • Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language

      Elisa Franchi

      págs. 135-158

      

    • Looking for the universal core of the RI stage

      Manola Salustri, Nina Hyams

      págs. 159-182

      

    • The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis

      Vincent Torrens, Linda Escobar, Kenneth Wexler

      págs. 183-202

      

    • Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop

      Jacqueline van Kampen

      págs. 203-223

      

  • Part III. Movement and resumptive pronouns

    • The acquisition of A- and A’-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese

      Elaine Grolla

      págs. 227-250

      

    • Acquiring long-distance wh-questions in L1 Spanish: A longitudinal investigation

      María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado

      págs. 251-287

      

    • Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh-scope marking in French 2

      Magda Oiry, Hamida Demirdache

      págs. 289-315

      

  • Part IV. Syntax/discourse interface

    • Acquisition of focus marking in European Portuguese: Evidence for a unified approach to focus

      João Costa, Kriszta Szendroi

      págs. 319-329

      

    • Subject pronouns in bilinguals: Interference or maturation?

      Manuela Pinto

      págs. 331-350

      

  • Part V. L2 acquisition

    • Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in L2 acquisition?: Focus on mood distinctions clauses in L2 Spanish

      Claudia Borgonovo, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Philippe Prevost

      págs. 353-369

      

    • The development of the syntax-discourse interface: Greek learners of Spanish

      Cristóbal Lozano

      págs. 371-399

      

    • Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter: A look at the discourse-pragmatic distribution of null and overt subjects by L2 learners of Spanish

      Silvina Montrul, Celeste Rodríguez Louro

      págs. 401-418