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THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH MORPHOSYNTAX: THE L1/L2 CONNECTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

Dan Thornhill
Dan Thornhill
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH MORPHOSYNTAX: THE L1/L2 CONNECTION. Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Juana Muñoz Liceras (Eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002. Pp. xxiii + 247. $110.00 cloth, $50.00 paper.

Since the middle 1980s, the study of the acquisition of Spanish has blossomed, becoming a diverse field in which new avenues for original research are still quite abundant. More specifically, this volume addresses examples of morphosyntactic optionality observed in the interlanguage grammars of Spanish language learners, both first language (L1) and second language (L2). Furthermore, it describes how morphology can trigger the acquisition of new syntactic knowledge. A major strength of the collection lies in the numerous and varied original contributions it makes to our knowledge of the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 486 - 488
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Wexler, K. (1994). Optional infinitives, head movement, and the economy of derivations. In D. Lightfoot & N. Hornstein (Eds.), Verb movement (pp. 305–350). New York: Cambridge University Press.