There is no evidence for a ‘no overt subject’ stage in early child Spanish
A note on Grinstead (2000)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20368232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Javier Aguado‐Orea (0000-0002-2311-5295, University of Nottingham), JAVIER AGUADO-OREA, Julian M Pine (0000-0002-7077-9713, University of Nottingham) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 865-874 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000902005263 |
| PMID | 12471976 |
| OpenAlex | W2169267022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Grinstead (2000) argues that there is a stage in both Spanish and Catalan children's grammatical development when they are restricted to using verbs without overt subjects. However, the evidence for a ‘no overt subject’ stage in early child Spanish is based on very thin data from a single child: Juan between the ages of 1;7 and 2;1. In the present note we reanalyse the data from Juan and compare it with data from another child María at 1;7 and 1;8. Our results show that Juan produces his first overt subject during the same session as his first non-imperative verb form, and that María produces a relatively high proportion of verbs with overt subjects in both of her first two transcripts. They thus provide no support for the claim that there is a ‘no overt subject’ stage in early child Spanish
Catalan · Developmental psychology · Developmental stage · Language development · Linguistics · Verb · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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