Acquisition of Romance Languages

Old Acquisition Challenges and New Explanations from a Generative Perspective

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau, Pilar Larrañaga, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau, Pilar Larrañaga

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781614518020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614513575
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children's, adults', and bilinguals' acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures.

Table of contents

• Table of contents
• Contributors
• Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches
• 1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters
• 2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese
• 3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French
• 4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian
• 5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children
• 6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability
• 7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study
• 8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch L1 learners
• 9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children a d children with developmental dyslexia
• Index