Minimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition

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Minimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition case studies across Portuguese / edited by Acrisio Pires, Jason Rothman. - Berlin, DE : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.
1 online resource (viii, 354 p.) : ill. - (Studies on language acquisition ; 35) Content notes : 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. 9783110215359 (electronic bk.) 3110215357 (electronic bk.) 128229654X 9781282296541 * Second language acquisition - Case studies. Bilingualism - Case studies. Portuguese language - Case studies. - Acquisition Portuguese language - Case studies. - Ability testing Grammar, Comparative and general - Case studies. Minimalist theory (Linguistics) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics - Psycholinguistics. * Pires, Acrisio.Rothman, Jason. * Title * Series