How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives

This paper investigates Spanish-speaking children's acquisition of ser and estar with adjectives. Studies based on production data have shown that ser and estar are acquired early. However, we know very little about how children acquire this knowledge based on the linguistic input they are expo...

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Autor principal:	HOLTHEUER BEAUSIRE,CAROLINA
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte 2013
Materias:	First language acquisition linguistic input natural production data
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-488320130002000032014-01-08How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectivesHOLTHEUER BEAUSIRE,CAROLINA First language acquisition linguistic input natural production data This paper investigates Spanish-speaking children's acquisition of ser and estar with adjectives. Studies based on production data have shown that ser and estar are acquired early. However, we know very little about how children acquire this knowledge based on the linguistic input they are exposed to. Production data of ser and estar by eleven children and their principal caretakers were collected in order to investigate whether and how children extract information from parental input. A qualitative analysis of both the children's natural production and their respective input indicated that children's choice of the copulas was related to the semantic and morphological properties of the adjectives they appear with, suggesting that children may use linguistic generalizations independent from the input in order to acquire ser and estar.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y ArteRLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada v.51 n.2 20132013-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48832013000200003en10.4067/S0718-48832013000200003
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spellingShingle	First language acquisition linguistic input natural production data HOLTHEUER BEAUSIRE,CAROLINA How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives
description	This paper investigates Spanish-speaking children's acquisition of ser and estar with adjectives. Studies based on production data have shown that ser and estar are acquired early. However, we know very little about how children acquire this knowledge based on the linguistic input they are exposed to. Production data of ser and estar by eleven children and their principal caretakers were collected in order to investigate whether and how children extract information from parental input. A qualitative analysis of both the children's natural production and their respective input indicated that children's choice of the copulas was related to the semantic and morphological properties of the adjectives they appear with, suggesting that children may use linguistic generalizations independent from the input in order to acquire ser and estar.
author	HOLTHEUER BEAUSIRE,CAROLINA
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author_sort	HOLTHEUER BEAUSIRE,CAROLINA
title	How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives
title_short	How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives
title_full	How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives
title_fullStr	How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives
title_full_unstemmed	How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives
title_sort	how children use the input to acquire the spanish copulas ser and estar with adjectives
publisher	Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte
publishDate	2013
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How children use the input to acquire the Spanish copulas Ser and Estar with adjectives

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