First Language Acquisition in Spanish: A Minimalist Approach to Nominal Agreement

by Socarras Gilda and Gilda Socarras

Book Overview

This book provides new insights into the acquisition of functional categories in child language. Operating within the Minimalist Framework (Chomsky 1995) it examines in particular the availability of Determiner Phrases in the grammar of young children acquiring Spanish as a first language.

The analysis reveals an interaction in child grammar around the production of bare nominals, proto-determiners and full determiner phrases. Socarr s performs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441133658
• ISBN13: 9781441133656
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"