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Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement
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Hsin, Lisa B.; Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Barriere, Isabelle; Nazzi, Thierry; Legendre, Geraldine – Journal of Child Language, 2021
A surprising comprehension-production asymmetry in subject-verb (SV) agreement acquisition has been suggested in the literature, and recent research indicates that task-specific as well as language-specific features may contribute to this apparent asymmetry across languages. The present study investigates when during development children acquiring…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Language Variation
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in Second Person Singular Preterit Forms in Spanish Children
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Baker, Elisabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The current study investigates Spanish children's variation between the standard and non-standard forms for second person singular preterit --s ("caiste" [approximately equal to] "caístes"). All second person singular preterit forms were extracted from the spontaneous speech of 78 children in Spain and analyzed for the effects…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Spanish, Grammar, Speech Communication
Acquiring Constraints on Morphosyntactic Variation: Children's Spanish Subject Pronoun Expression
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Shin, Naomi Lapidus – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Constraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual children in Mexico, divided into four age…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Children, Spanish