Spanish copula selection with adjectives at age three

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ID20366392
AuthorsPablo E Requena (0000-0002-9011-9755, The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume48
Issue3
Pages621-633
Publication date2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000920000446
PMID32838827
OpenAlexW3080748219
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited17

Previous comprehension studies using Picture Matching Tasks (PMT) have shown that, by the age of four, Spanish-speaking children have acquired the semantics of estar being able to calculate the implicature that a property introduced with estar does not hold independent of time as well as displaying some ability to integrate discourse information about properties that change in the course of a story. This study extends that line of research to children under the age of four. Thirty-eight monolingual Spanish-speaking children were tested in two PMTs. The results show that at age three children differ from older children in their interpretation of the copulas suggesting that the distinction between ser and estar with adjectives emerges between the ages of three and four

Comprehension · Implicature · Lexicology · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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