The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages

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Vincent Torrens | Psycholinguistics Institute, Madrid

Linda Escobar | Psycholinguistics Institute, Madrid

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This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturation of general principles universal to all languages. They all depart from the view that language acquisition can be explained in terms of learning language specific rules, constraints or structures. The different parts into which this volume is organized reflect different approaches that current research has offered, which deal with issues of development of reflexive pronouns, determiners, clitics, verbs, auxiliaries, inflection, wh-movement, ressumptive pronouns, topic and focus, mood, the syntax/discourse interface, and null arguments.

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.41

Table of Contents

The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages

Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar | pp. ix–xii

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

Sergio Baauw, Marieke Kuipers, Esther Ruigendijk and Fernando Cuetos | pp. 3–21

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

Isabelle Barrière and Marjorie Perlman Lorch | pp. 23–49

Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan

Anna Gavarró, Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Thomas Roeper | pp. 51–68

Null arguments in monolingual children: A comparison of Italian and French

Natascha Müller, Katrin Schmitz, Katja Francesca Cantone and Tanja Kupisch | pp. 69–93

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

Maren Pannemann | pp. 95–114

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

Claudia Caprin and Maria Teresa Guasti | pp. 117–133

Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language

Elisa Franchi | pp. 135–158

Looking for the universal core of the RI stage

Manola Salustri and Nina Hyams | pp. 159–182

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

Vincent Torrens, Linda Escobar and Kenneth Wexler | pp. 183–202

Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop

Jacqueline van Kampen | pp. 203–223

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

Elaine Grolla | pp. 227–250

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

María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado | pp. 251–287

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

Magda Oiry and Hamida Demirdache | pp. 289–315

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

João Costa and Kriszta Szendröi | pp. 319–329

Subject pronouns in bilinguals: Interference or maturation?

Manuela Pinto | pp. 331–350

Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in l2 acquisition? Focus on mood distinctions clauses in L2 Spanish

Claudia Borgonovo, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Philippe Prévost | pp. 353–369

The development of the syntax-information structure interface: Greek learners of Spanish

Cristóbal Lozano | pp. 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 and Celeste Rodríguez Louro | pp. 401–418

Index | pp. 419–421

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