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New directions in language acquisition: Romance languages in the generative perspective

New directions in language acquisition: Romance languages in the generative perspective
New directions in language acquisition: Romance languages in the generative perspective
This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field. Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping children’s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition.
1443821233
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro
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Dominguez, Laura
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro
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Dominguez, Laura
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro and Dominguez, Laura (eds.) (2010) New directions in language acquisition: Romance languages in the generative perspective , Newcastle upon Tyne, GB. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 455pp.

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This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field. Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping children’s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition.

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Published date: June 2010

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Local EPrints ID: 148007
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/148007
ISBN: 1443821233
PURE UUID: ef3baf63-e92d-415d-88d2-44ad0cf50c4b
ORCID for Laura Dominguez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-2469

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Date deposited: 27 Apr 2010 09:23
Last modified: 09 Apr 2022 01:39

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Editor: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Editor: Laura Dominguez ORCID iD

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