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Word Order in Constructions with a One-Valency Verb, a Subject NP and a PP in Spoken Rioplatense Spanish.
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This article is published in Hispania.The article was published on 1991-05-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subject (grammar) & Word order.read more
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Thinking for speaking and cross-linguistic transfer in preschool bilingual children
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether cross-linguistic transfer occurs when overlapping constructions exist, but there are cross-language differences in conceptualization between languages, and found that children were more likely to mention the action in English than in French, but could recall the action when cued.
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English/Spanish syntactic contrasts : minimalism and optimality
TL;DR: The information contained in I and v is no longer in the form of affixes that attach to items, as it was in previous models; it is rather a collection of features that must coincide with the features of the item.
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Children’s acquisition of word order depends on syntactic/semantic role: Evidence from adjective-noun order
Elena Nicoladis,Mijke Rhemtulla +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that children learn grammatical abstractions in the preschool years, based on the fact that, in English verb clauses, word embeddings occur in the early stages of children's development.
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An investigation of unaccusativity and word order in Mexican Spanish
TL;DR: This article investigated unaccusativity and word order in Spanish and found significant word order differences between verb categories and locate an unergative/unaccusative cutoff point midway along the hierarchy.