The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Emma Ticio Quesada
[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.
Emma Ticio Quesada
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emma Ticio Quesada plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2015 No superiority, no intervention effects: The Spanish puzzle Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Article
Recent typological approaches (Cable, 2010; Pesetsky, 2000) explain the independently-noticed crosslinguistic differences between Superiority and Intervention Effects as the result of general lexical differences of wh-phrases. A pattern that seems to be recurrent crosslinguistically is that… read more
2015 Differential object marking in Spanish-English early bilinguals Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:1, pp. 62–90 | Article
This paper examines the emergence and acquisition of marked accusative objects (Differential Object Marking, DOM, Bossong, 1991) in the spontaneous production of seven early Spanish-English simultaneous bilinguals (henceforth, 2L1) with different linguistic environments. The main finding is that… read more
2009 Putting in Order the Spanish DP Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, Masullo, Pascual José, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang (eds.), pp. 291–306 | Article
PP arguments within Spanish DPs can appear in any order to the right of the N. However, PP arguments display a strict hierarchical relation (i.e., possessors ccommand agents and agents c-command objects) well documented in binding relations and extraction possibilities out of Spanish DPs. Previous… read more