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

By: Pires, AcrisioContributor(s): Rothman, JasonMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] SerPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (354 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110215359Subject(s): Bilingualism -- Case studies | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case studies | Linguistic change -- Case studies | Minimalist theory (Linguistics) | Portuguese language -- Ability testing -- Case studies | Portuguese language -- Acquisition -- Case studies | Second language acquisition -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition : Case Studies across PortugueseDDC classification: 401.93 LOC classification: P118.2.M57 2009Online resources: Click to View
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Child and adult language acquisition, linguistic theory and (microparametric) variation -- 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 -- 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.
Summary: Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Child and adult language acquisition, linguistic theory and (microparametric) variation -- 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 -- 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.

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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