Acquiring constraints on morphosyntactic variation: children's Spanish subject pronoun expression

• Published in: Journal of child language Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 914 - 947
• Main Author: SHIN, NAOMI LAPIDUS
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Child development; Child Language; Children; Dialect Studies; English; Female; Foreign Countries; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Humans; Language Acquisition; Language Development; Language Usage; Language Variation; Learning; Linguistics; Logistic Models; Male; Mexico; Monolingualism; Morphology (Languages); Morphophonemics; Native language acquisition; Phonemes; Predictor Variables; Pronouns; Regression (Statistics); Sociolinguistics; Spanish; Spanish language; Spanish Speaking; Syntax; Translation; Verbal communication; Verbs; Vowels; Mexico

Constraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual...