On the Acquisition of the Indefinite Article
A Cross-linguistic Study of French, Italian, Romanian and Spanish Child Speech
The present article argues that the idea of morphology-driven syntax carries over to first-language acquisition. Morphology encodes properties of functional categories, i.e. particular features and feature values that must be set according to the target (adult) language during the acquisition process. In agreement with previous findings concerning the acquisition of functional categories in the verbal domain, we discuss here some cross-linguistic data with respect to the nominal functional domain. In this respect, specificity can be said to develop stepwise, as the result of the valuation of the /number/ before the /person/ feature of noun phrases, which finds its reflection in the emergence of indefinite articles before definite articles.
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Arnaus Gil, Laia, Johanna Stahnke & Natascha Müller
2021.
On the Acquisition of French (Null) Subjects and (In)Definiteness: Simultaneous and Early Sequential bi-, tri- and Multilinguals.
Probus 33:2
► pp. 181 ff.
Arnaus Gil, Laia, Johanna Stahnke & Natascha Müller
2021.
On the Acquisition of French (Null) Subjects and (In)Definiteness: Simultaneous and Early Sequential bi-, tri- and Multilinguals.
Probus 33:2
► pp. 181 ff.
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