TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pires,Acrisio
AU  - Rothman,Jason
TI  - Minimalist inquiries into child and adult language acquisition: case studies across Portuguese 
T2  - Studies on language acquisition
SN  - 9783110215359 (electronic bk.)
AV  - P118.2 .M57 2009eb
U1  - 401/.93 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berlin, DE
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - Second language acquisition
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - Portuguese language
KW  - Acquisition
KW  - Ability testing
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - 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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