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Title Minimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition : case studies across Portuguese / edited by Acrisio Pires, Jason Rothman.

Publication Info. Berlin, DE : Mouton de Gruyter, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies on language acquisition ; 35
Studies on language acquisition ; 35.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Frontmatter; Contents; Foreword; Child and adult language acquisition, linguistic theory and (microparametric) variation; Bootstrapping language acquisition from a minimalist standpoint: On the identification of?-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.
Summary 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 emphasis has been on contributions that present studies exploring both empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition of syntax, and its interfaces with morphology, with semantics/pragmatics, and with language change. Within the generative paradigm alone there are various volumes.
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Subject Second language acquisition -- Case studies.
Second language acquisition.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Bilingualism -- Case studies.
Bilingualism.
Portuguese language -- Acquisition -- Case studies.
Portuguese language -- Acquisition.
Portuguese language.
Portuguese language -- Ability testing -- Case studies.
Portuguese language -- Ability testing.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case studies.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Pires, Acrisio.
Rothman, Jason.
Other Form: Print version: 9783110215342
ISBN 9783110215359 (electronic book)
3110215357 (electronic book)
128229654X
9781282296541
3110215349 (alkaline paper)
9783110215342 (alkaline paper)
9783110215342 (alkaline paper)