Una reseña de Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-speaking Children

Abstract

Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes. Preface; References; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; Part I: Typical Language Development in Monolingual and Bilingual Children; Typical Language Development of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children; 1 Acquiring Spanish as a First Language: The Problem-Space; 2 Phonological, Syntactic and Morphological Properties of the Spanish Language; 2.1 Word Order and Pronoun Dropping; 2.2 Noun Morphology and Agreement; 2.3 Sentence Type Constructions; 2.4 Verb System; 3 Spanish Language Acquisition; 3.1 Early Phonological Development; 3.2 Early Lexical Development 3.3 Vocabulary Growth After First Words and Early Morphological Development3.4 Comprehending Words and Morphemes in Spanish; 3.5 Acquisition of Spanish Morphology: Production Studies; 3.6 The Acquisition Process for Spanish Gender Agreement; 3.7 The Nominal Plural and its Development; 3.8 Acquisition of Verb Morphology; 3.9 Other Linguistic Categories; 3.10 Syntactic Development; 3.10.1 Word Order; 3.10.2 Complex Syntax; 3.10.3 Latest Morphosyntactic Acquisition; References Language Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with and Without Specific Language Impairment: A Longitudinal Perspective1 Specific Characteristics of Typical Language Development in Bilingual Children; 1.1 Bilingual Language Acquisition; 1.1.1 Similarities Between Monolingual and Bilingual Language Acquisition; 1.1.2 Differences Between Monolingual and Bilingual Language Acquisition; 1.2 Variables That Modulate Language Acquisition in Bilinguals; 1.3 Cognitive Differences Associated with Bilingualism; 2 Language Development in Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment 2.1 Core Difficulties in Bilingual Children with SLI2.2 SLI in Bilingual Children: Different Languages at Play; 2.3 Longitudinal Perspectives in Bilingual Children with SLI; 2.4 Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI; 2.4.1 Phonological Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI; 2.4.2 Morphosyntactic Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI; 2.4.3 Lexical-Semantic Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI; 2.4.4 Pragmatic Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI 2.4.5 Executive Functions in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI2.4.6 Reading in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI; 2.4.7 Social Development in Bilingual Spanish-Catalan Children with SLI; 3 Conclusions; References; Bilingual and Monolingual Children's Patterns of Syntactic Variation: Variable Clitic Placement in Spanish; 1 Introduction; 2 Previous Research; 2.1 Variable Clitic Placement in Monolingual Adult Spanish; 2.2 Acquisition of Variable Clitic Placement: Monolingual Children; 2.3 Bilinguals and Variable Clitic Placement; 3 Methods; 3.1 Participants