The Emergence of Linguistic Person in Spanish-Speaking Children.

Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller; Sebastian, Eugenia; Soto, Pilar

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ERIC Number: EJ657527

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Publication Date: 2002

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The Emergence of Linguistic Person in Spanish-Speaking Children.

Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller; Sebastian, Eugenia; Soto, Pilar

Language Learning, v52 n4 p679-722 Dec 2002

Data from three children learning Spanish are explored for the development of linguistic person in an inflectional language. Contrastive use of person, tense, and number and the presence of overt subjects and overt objects are examined. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Spanish Speaking, Tenses (Grammar)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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