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T1 The Emergence and Production of the English Prepositions in and of in 2L1 Spanish/English Simultaneous Bilingual Children
A1 Blanco Campos, Irene
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Prepositions
K1 Bilingual acquisition
K1 English/Spanish
K1 Children
K1 Spontaneous longitudinal data
K1 Crosslinguistic influence
K1 Preposiciones
K1 Adquisición
K1 Bilingüe
K1 Inglés/español
K1 Niños
K1 Influencia interlingüística
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB Some grammarians consider prepositions to be a hybrid category, since they do notconform entirely to either lexical or functional categories. Previous studies on childlanguage acquisition have shown differences in the acquisition of lexical vs. functionalprepositions in English. However, other studies show that this difference is not as markedin languages like Spanish. In the light of previous formal studies and acquisition works,this study analyzes the production of the English prepositions in and of, taking the formeras lexical and the latter as functional, in the spontaneous longitudinal data from twoSpanish/English simultaneous bilingual children. The aim is to determine whether thepattern of acquisition of English prepositions exhibited by Spanish/English bilingualchildren is similar to that of English monolingual children. The results suggest that thehybrid nature of prepositions may not affect the Spanish/English bilingual children asmuch as it affects the English monolingual children. This points to crosslinguisticdifferences in the acquisition of lexical and functional prepositions and to potentialcrosslinguistic influence effects from Spanish into English.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59428
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59428
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-nov-2024