{"id":953,"date":"2010-10-08T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=953"},"modified":"2010-07-22T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:00:23","slug":"the-acquisition-of-syntax-in-romance-languages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages"},"content":{"rendered":"
The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages.<\/strong> Ed. by Vincent Torrens<\/strong> and Linda Escobar<\/strong>. (Language acquisition and language disorders 41.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. Pp. viii, 422. ISBN 9789027253019<\/a>. $188 (Hb).<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Iv\u00e1n Ortega-Santos<\/strong><\/a>, University of Memphis<\/em><\/p>\n

With an emphasis on Romance languages and the principles and parameters framework, this volume presents a selection of papers from The Romance Turn, a workshop on first and second language acquisition that took place in Madrid in 2004.<\/p>\n

Section 1 focuses on \u2018Clitics, determiners and pronouns\u2019. Sergio Baauw<\/strong>, Marieke Kuipers<\/strong>, Esther Ruigendijk<\/strong>, and Fernando Cuetos<\/strong> explore the development of se<\/em>– and self<\/em>-anaphors in Spanish and Dutch. Anna<\/strong> Gavarr\u00f3<\/strong>, Ana Teresa P\u00e9rez-Leroux<\/strong>, and Thomas Roeper<\/strong> contrast the acquisition of the bare nouns and definite nouns in English and Catalan. Isabelle Barri\u00e8re<\/strong> and Marjorie Perlman Lorch<\/strong> investigate the acquisition of ambiguous valency-marking morphemes in French. The acquisition of object clitics in French and Italian is detailed by Natascha M\u00fcller<\/strong>, Katrin Schmitz<\/strong>, Katja Cantone<\/strong>, and Tanja Kupisch<\/strong>, and Maren Pannemann<\/strong> contemplates interference in the first language acquisition of determiner phrases in French-Germanic bilingual children.<\/p>\n

In Section 2, \u2018Verbs, auxiliaries and inflections\u2019, Claudia Caprin<\/strong> and Maria Teresa Guasti<\/strong> discuss the acquisition the auxiliary be<\/em> in early Italian. Elisa Franchi <\/strong>looks at patterns of copula omission in Italian. The acquisition of imperatives and the root infinitive hypothesis are discussed by Manola<\/strong> Salustri<\/strong> and Nina<\/strong> Hyams<\/strong>. Finally, the acquisition of subjects and external arguments are explored by Vincent Torrens, Linda Escobar, and Kenneth Wexler <\/strong>for Spanish and by Jacqueline van Kampen<\/strong> for French, Spanish, and Portuguese.<\/p>\n

Section 3, \u2018Movement and resumptive pronouns\u2019, includes Elaine<\/strong> Grolla<\/strong>\u2019s contribution on the acquisition of A- and A\u2019-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese, Mar\u00eda Junkal<\/strong> Guti\u00e9rrez<\/strong> Mangado<\/strong>\u2019s exploration of the acquisition of long-distance wh<\/em>-questions in first language Spanish, and Magda Oiry<\/strong> and Hamida<\/strong> Demirdache<\/strong>\u2019s investigation of the acquisition of wh<\/em>-in situ in first language French.<\/p>\n

The focus of Section 4 is \u2018Syntax\/discourse interfaces\u2019. Jo\u00e3o Costa<\/strong> and Kriszta<\/strong> Szendr\u00f6i <\/strong>discuss <\/strong>focus marking in early European Portuguese, and Manuela Pinto<\/strong> examines the effect of crosslinguistic influence on bilingual first language acquisition.<\/p>\n

Finally, Section 5 explores \u2018L2 acquisition\u2019. Claudia Borgonovo<\/strong>, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito<\/strong>, and Philippe Pr\u00e9vost<\/strong> discuss English native speakers\u2019 interpretation of determiner phrases signaled by mood in Spanish relative clauses. Crist\u00f3bal Lozano <\/strong>investigates the second language acquisition of presentational focus by Greek-speaking learners of Spanish. Silvina A. Montrul<\/strong> and Celeste Rodr\u00edguez Louro<\/strong> consider the acquisition of morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic aspects of subject expression in second language Spanish across different proficiency levels of English-speaking learners.<\/p>\n

The variety of issues addressed will make this volume particularly interesting not only for those specializing in Romance languages or in language acquisition but for a broader audience as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages. Ed. by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar. (Language acquisition and language disorders 41.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. Pp. viii, 422. ISBN 9789027253019. $188 (Hb). Reviewed by Iv\u00e1n Ortega-Santos, University of Memphis With an emphasis on Romance languages and the principles and parameters framework, this volume presents a selection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}