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Publication details [#30545]

Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C., Eugenia Sebastián and Pilar Soto. 2002. The Emergence of Linguistic Person in Spanish-Speaking Children. Language Learning 52 (4) : 679–722.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0023-8333

Annotation

This paper explores data from children learning Spanish for the development of linguistic person in an inflectional language. The findings challenge theories that posit uniformity across children, present a maturational sequence of innately endowed categories for person, tense, and number, or state that universal grammar relates the emergence of any of these to the presence of overt subjects