Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence  

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Liceras, Juana M. ; Fuertes, Raquel Fernández ; Fuente, Anahí Alba de la

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 32 no. 1-2 (2012), page 88-115.
Topik: copula omission; interlinguistic influence; L1 bilingual acquisition; lexicon–semantics interface; overt subjects
Fulltext: p. 88-115.pdf (860.56KB)

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The presence of non-adult patterns of omission/production of functional categories has occupied a central place in both monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition research. In bilingual acquisition a central learnability issue has been to determine whether interlinguistic influence would interact with those patterns. In this article, the authors analyse the omission/production of subject pronouns in the developing Spanish grammar and of copula be in the developing English grammar of two English– Spanish simultaneous bilingual children in order to address the issues of the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence. The authors argue that the directionality of interlinguistic influence is determined by the need to implement core operations of the computational system and that the lexical–semantic interface is an area of the grammar where interlinguistic influence occurs.

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