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T1 Bilingual early functional-lexical mixing and the activation of formal features
A1 Liceras, Juana M.
A1 Spradlin, K. Todd
A1 Fernández Fuertes, Raquel
K1 Gramática
K1 Grammatica
K1 Niños bilingües
K1 Bilingual children
AB We have argued that the grammatical features spell-out hypothesis (GFSH) (Liceras, Spradlin, Perales, Fernández, & Álvarez, 2003; Spradlin, Liceras & Fernández, 2003a) accounts for the functional-lexical mixing patterns that prevail in the case of Determiner Phrases produced by bilingual (English-Spanish) children. This hypothesis (Liceras, 2002; Spradlin, Liceras & Fernández, 2003b) states that in the process of activating the features of the two grammars, the child, who will rely on the two lexicons, will make codemixing choices which will favor the functional categories containing the largest array of uninterpretable features (Chomsky, 1998, 1999). This implies that in the case of English/ Spanish child acquisition data, mixed utterances such as el book (Spanish Determiner + English Noun) will prevail over mixed utterances such as the libro (English Determiner + Spanish Noun). Thus, in the process of acquisition, children pay special attention to the visible morpho-phonological triggers which lead to the activation of abstract formal features.
PB Sage Journals
SN 1367-0069
YR 2005
FD 2005
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57478
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57478
LA eng
NO International Journal of Bilingualism, 2005, 9 (2): 227-251.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-nov-2024