Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition : : Case Studies across Portuguese /

Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition : : Case Studies across Portuguese / / ed. by Acrisio Pires, Jason Rothman.

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This volume brings together chapters written by specialists in North America, Europe and Brazil. It includes original research about the acquisition (L1, bilingualism) and acquisition/ learning (L2 or L3) of dialects of Brazilian and European Portuguese. In an effort to maximize volume cohesion, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Cabrelli-Amaro, Jennifer,
Costa, João,
Cyrino, Sonia L.,
Dias, Rejane,
Fruit Bell, Maria,
Grolla, Elaine,
Iverson, Michael,
Judy, Tiffany,
Kato, Mary A.,
Lightfoot, David,
Lobo, Maria,
Madeira, Ana Maria,
Montrul, Silvina,
Pires, Acrisio,
Quicoli, A. Carlos,
Reche Corrêa, Vilma,
Rothman, Jason,
Santos, Ana Lúcia,
Sicuro Corrêa, Letícia,
Thomé-Williams, Ana,
Vasconcellos Lopes, Ruth,
Xavier, Maria Francisca,
HerausgeberIn:
Pires, Acrisio,
Rothman, Jason,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.) :; Figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Child and adult language acquisition, linguistic theory and (microparametric) variation
  • Part 1 – First Language Acquisition
  • Bootstrapping language acquisition from a minimalist standpoint: On the identification of ϕ-features in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Clitic omission in the acquisition of European Portuguese: Data from comprehension
  • Speculations about the acquisition of wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Aspect and the acquisition of null objects in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese in late childhood: Implications for syntactic theory and language change
  • Early VP ellipsis: Production and comprehension evidence
  • Part 2 – Adult and Second Language Acquisition
  • Informing adult acquisition debates: N-Drop at the initial state of L3 Brazilian Portuguese
  • Divergence at the syntax-discourse interface: Evidence from the L2 acquisition of contrastive focus in European Portuguese
  • Competing SLA hypotheses assessed: Comparing heritage and successive Spanish bilinguals of L3 Brazilian Portuguese
  • Brazilian Portuguese and the recovery of lost clitics through schooling
  • The acquisition of clitic pronouns in L2 European Portuguese
  • Subject expression in the non-native acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese
  • Afterword
  • Backmatter

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