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T1 Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Acquisition of English and Catalan
A1 Capdevila i Batet, Montserrat
AB This paper analyses the acquisition of the functional categoriesAgreement (AGR-S) and Tense (TNS) by monolingual English andCatalan speaking children. The theoretical framework assumed is thePrinciples and Parameters model of Generative Theory. The results ofthe study show that all the children go through two stages in the acquisitionof these two functional categories: A first prefunctional stage,characterised by the absence of syntactic projections for Agreementand Tense; and a second, functional stage, in which children start toshow knowledge of the mechanisms and properties associated with thetwo functional categories at stake. The results of this study provide evidencefor the Maturation of Functional Categories Hypothesis, as proposedby Guilfoyle and Noonan (1988), Radford (1990), and Tsimpli(1992), among others.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
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RD 19-nov-2024