Publications

Publication details [#42041]

Grinstead, John. 2004. Subjects and interface delay in child Spanish and Catalan. Language 80 (1) : 40–72.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | grammar1 | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Catalan | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Linguistic Society of America

Annotation

This study demonstrates that child Catalan and Spanish speakers employ no overt subjects, whilst the incapability of child Spanish- and Catalan-speakers to employ discourse-pragmatic information is accounted for as a grammar-discourse pragmatics interface delay.