Quechua-Spanish bilingualism : interference and convergence in functional categories /
This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2003.
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Colección: | Language acquisition & language disorders ;
v. 35. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence o. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027295965 9027295964 1588114716 9781588114716 9027252947 9789027252944 |