Carmen Silva-Corvalan

Bilingual Language Acquisition

Spanish and English in the First Six Years

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024267
• ISBN-10: 1107024269
• Artikelnr.: 40449505

Autorenporträt

Carmen Silva-Corvalán is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Bilingual development: a linguistic profile of the first six years
4. Subjects in English and Spanish
5. The order of constituents: subject position in Spanish and English
6. The acquisition of ser, estar, and be
7. The development of verb morphology: learning how to mark tense, aspect and mood
8. Discussion and conclusions
Appendices: 1. Transcription instructions
2. Calculation of MLUw
3. Spanish adjectives used with copulas up to age 6
4. The siblings' early verb lexicon in English and Spanish
5. Excerpt of adapted Goldilocks story.