Early determination
This study examines the syntactic and semantic factors in children’s initial production of determiners. Using longitudinal corpora of two monolingual Spanish-speaking children, we investigate whether children exhibit sensitivity to the pre-/post-verbal asymmetry, and awareness of the count-singular, mass and count-plural distinction from an early age. Our results indicate that the children in this study have determiners from a very young age, but their initial use is not as generalized as adults’. The data suggest that the different quantitative status of the relevant input across domains and categories (lexical class, number, function and position) plays a role in development. We conclude that children attend to the categorical distinctions, rather than the overall variability in the input, in the process of acquiring the determiner system.
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Castilla-Earls, Anny, Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux & Alejandra Auza
2021.
Elicited vs. spontaneous language as methods for the assessment of grammatical development: The DEME assessment tool.
Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología 41:4
► pp. 164 ff.
Grinstead, John, Paij Lintz, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Juliana De la Mora, Myriam Cantú-Sánchez & Blanca Flores-Avalos
2014.
Evidence of optional infinitive verbs in the spontaneous speech of Spanish-speaking children with SLI.
Lingua 140
► pp. 52 ff.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa, Anny Patricia Castilla-Earls & Jerry Brunner
2012.
General and Specific Effects of Lexicon in Grammar: Determiner and Object Pronoun Omissions in Child Spanish.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 55:2
► pp. 313 ff.
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