Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax
Edited by Vincent Torrens
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 64] 2020. vi, 305 pp.
Vincent Torrens
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vincent Torrens plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Chapter 14. The acquisition of mood in child Spanish L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 355–378 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study exploring the relationship between the development of Theory of Mind (ToM) and the first language acquisition of the subjunctive mood in Spanish. An analysis of the contrast between Spanish indicative and subjunctive verbal moods is proposed, linking it… read more
2020 Introduction: Typical and impaired processing of relative clauses, empty categories and determiner phrases Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax, Torrens, Vincent (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2009 Specific language impairment in Spanish & Catalan Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 265–282 | Article
This study examines empirical data from Spanish and Catalan children with SLI and argues in favor of the grammatical agreement deficit hypothesis (Clahsen 1989, 1991; Clahsen et al. 1997). Following Chomsky’s (1995) system of morphosyntactic features in terms of interpretability, we will assume… read more
2008 5. The acquisition of universal quantifiers in Spanish First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners, Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens (eds.), pp. 119–135 | Article
This chapter deals with experimental research on Spanish children’s interpretation of universal quantifiers. A potentially difficult asymmetry is highlighted: quantifiers in preverbal or postverbal position in contexts of Clitic Left Dislocation. We show that five-year-olds easily obtain the wide… read more
2006 The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vincent and Linda Escobar (eds.), pp. ix–xii | Miscellaneous
2006 The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vincent and Linda Escobar (eds.), pp. 183–202 | Article
We present evidence that children have difficulty with the Spanish psych verbs that do not project the subject as the external argument. Our findings support the External Argument Requirement Hypothesis (EARH), according to which children until 5 or more have trouble with base structures that don’t… read more
2004 Feature Checking and Object Clitic Omission in Child Catalan and Spanish Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 253 ff. | Article