Agreement Morphology and the Acquisition of Noun-Drop in Spanish  

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Snyder, William M. ; Senghas, Ann ; Inman, Kelly

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 9 no. 2 (2001), page 157-173.
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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LAA/9 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Spanish exhibits a deteminer phrase (DP)-internal phenomenon (noun-drop or N- drop) closely analogous to subject pro-drop. Where English has the near-vacuous nominal one in the DP the blue one, for example, Spanish lacks any overt nominal: el azul, literally 'the blue'. The availability ofN-drop in a language has been linked by some authors to richness of the overt agreement morphology on adjectives, deter- miners, or both. The evidence from child language acquisition, however, runs counter to this view. In particular, a detailed case study of the longitudinal corpus of child Spanish data from Montes (1987) revealed that the child acquired the full Spanish system of DP-internal agreement morphology significantly earlier than she acquired N-drop. This finding indicates that rich agreement morphology is not in itself a sufficient condition for N-drop.

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