The Acquisition of Spanish

The
Acquisition
of
Spanish

The CLESS project is investigating children's acquisition of Spanish using spontaneous production data collected from children in Puerto Rico and Spain. In our work thus far we have examined children's use of null pronominals, and their acquisition of agreement morphology in the verbal and nominal domains.

The Spanish-learning children in our study are known as
Pedro, Ana, Jose, and Ines
Our papers on Spanish include the following:
Reglero, Lara and Emma Ticio (2001) The emergence of pronominal objects and AgrO in child Spanish. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, May 2001.
Snyder, William and Diane Lillo-Martin (2001) On the acquisition of Spanish goal PP's. Paper presented at the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2001.
Snyder, William, Ann Senghas, and Kelly Inman (in press) Agreement morphology and the acquisition of noun-drop in Spanish. Language Acquisition.
Ticio, Emma (2001) Moving towards the Non-null Subject Parameter: The acquisition of subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2001.

Ticio, Emma and Lara Reglero (2001) The acquisition of clitics in Child Spanish. Paper presented at the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2001.

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